he was coming back from the rift valley, and on either side of the highway, homes were on fire, and helook, we've just got to do something about this. but recently, i think ijust wanted to write a record, this new one that i've just put out, called dreams in stereo, that addresses a lot more personal stuff. it's an album that talks about passion, betrayal, and redemption. i want to take you through that journey in the course of this interview, so i want to actually go back now to consider you as a young man making your way in music. even younger. even younger than you are now, good point. you did something unusualfor a lot of kenyan and african musicians. you went to study music in the united states. and i wonder if that changed your sensibility, in some way, your musical sensibility? completely. i went to the berklee college of music, in boston, and berklee is — it's a very charged musical state, you know. first of all, you're out in boston as a kenyan, and the first thing people ask you is, do you run? because of the boston marathon. so it's the kind of space where if a kid is waitin