Nadia Nakai Talks About Her Life Almost A Year After Her Boyfriend, AKA Masego Seemela, Died
Nadia Nakai is talking about how heartbreakingly sad and grief-stricken she was almost a year after her rapper boyfriend Kiernan “AKA” Forbes died suddenly.
In the moving memorial with Sowetan, she went by the name Nadia Nakai Kandava and said that the past year has been the hardest of her life. During this hard time, she turned to Bianca Naidoo, who is married to the late rapper Riky Rick.
People who liked Supa Mega called him that. He was shot and killed on Florida Road in Durban two hours before midnight on February 10, 2017. He had been 35 years old.
I’ve never lost someone so close to me as Kendall. I had never been to a funeral before his. I’ve never been through this before, she said.
The person who made me feel better and with whom I talked was Bianca Naidoo. She has been very helpful to me in dealing with my pain because she knows what it’s like to lose a famous loved one [Ricky Rick died a year before AKA]. She had to deal with seeing and hearing Riky Rick all the time, just like I did. Putting my trust in her really helped me.
Having to deal with her grief in public has been hard, Nakai said, but seeing all the love and support from her friends has been a big part of her healing process.
But maybe the most lonely day was Christmas last year.
Her words, I steal happy moments here and there, which I’m truly grateful for,
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The last few months have been hard, especially Christmas because I spent it by myself. The Christmas before that was great, though, because our family was made up of people from different backgrounds. It was also hard on New Year’s because the day before I was on the road with Kiernan. I mean, there are a lot of memories. But right now, December through March is the hardest time of my life.
Putting her pain into her singing has also helped her get better. She went to the studio a month after his death and started writing about her pain, which was something she learned from AKA. This is how the AKA tribute song Never Leave came to be. It will be out this Friday. The album came out on the same day that AKA would have been 36 years old on Sunday.
I picked to work with Kash CPT, who is a new artist. He is very skilled, and he’s from Cape Town, which is where Kiernan was from, so I knew he’d be a good fit to work with,” she said.
And you can hear my plea in the song that AKA never leaves. I wish he never had to leave Joburg for Durban. I wish he hadn’t had to leave us all when he died. What I say in the song is what I’ve been saying to him in my prayers and spiritual talks.
Nakai will also be putting out two music albums. One of them will be an ode to her “forever love.”
When I first went to the studio, I didn’t plan to release a project. I was just trying to find some kind of therapy or way to heal, like how he used to cover himself with music when he was alive, and I thought I should do the same, she said.
I wanted to release the song on a sad day, like our anniversary or his birthday. I knew I didn’t want to do it on the anniversary of his death, because I don’t think that’s a day to celebrate.
Nakai also told AKA’s mother Lynn and DJ Zinhle, who is the mother of AKA’s daughter Kairo, how grateful she was.
Lynn was able to say that losing a boyfriend was like losing a son, which is not possible. She ignored her own pain to help me. I really like how kind she and Tony are; he’s like her dad. Since Kiernan died, we’ve become closer. She said, This help made me feel like God’s favorites.
The help I got from Zinhle and Kairo was also amazing. The fact that Kairo’s family let me keep the friendship we had when his dad was still alive is something I really appreciate. It has made me feel like Kiernan is still here with me.
KIERNAN had a tough appearance that kept many people from getting close to him. I like that he saved the softness just for me. He wanted to be held and treated like a baby, which was an honour for me that I will always remember.
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