Bien Aime is the most talkative member of the Sauti Sol group; and so far he also seems to be the one opening up about most things that Sauti Sol has faced as a group.
Speaking during his interview with Janjaruka; Bien for the first time opened up revealing how they were conned as Sauti Sol. According to Bien, a certain event organizer from Congo reached out hoping the boys would perform in Congo.
Seeing how important the money was, Bien says they all agreed as a group; but little did they know that the venue would be at a small town with no people. He went on to say;
On the day of the show, we went to the venue at like 10 in the night. The venue was a ghost town, there were like 15 people in that place, and the sound was whack.
Disappointments
Since all they wanted was to perform then head back to Nairobi for Christmas with their families; Bien Aime says they did what they do best by giving fans good music. He went on to add;
We gave them a stadium show still and after the show, he was supposed to give us about $10,000 (KSh 1 million) as a way of finishing off the payment. He was like, ‘I will finish off in the morning before you guys go to the airport, I need to go to the bank
Sadly the promoter turned out to be a con who failed to pay their hotel bills among other things. Bien says the hotel manager and their manager were then forced to find a solution on how the bill would be settled. At this point, they were all desperate to leave since it was on December 24th and they needed some family time.
After realizing their money wasn’t coming as promised; Bien and his team boarded a bus to Kigali town where they caught a flight to Nairobi.