 I'm going to be talking to the one and only Daddy Andre, Daddy Andre, how are you feeling? I am feeling very nice and okay. Nice and okay? Yes. I saw you landed yesterday. Yes, yes, yes, yes, the flight landed yesterday. But you were also in the flight, what do you mean? Yeah, the flight landed, I was in a flight, so I got out and I'm here. Okay, how do you find Kenya so far? Kenya is my home, I feel home and I feel like I don't want to leave it whenever I come here. But it's just that, where I came from, most people like try to call me every time, please come back, we also need you here. But anytime, I'm coming to settle home, because I love this place, it's good. And I'm just feeling at home. How often do you come here in Kenya? Almost anytime I want. Anytime I want. I'm almost in Kenya because me I started the border of Kenya and Uganda, yeah, it's western Kenya, so I'm Lua, so I think, yeah. Since you understand both cultures, the Ugandan culture and the Kenyan culture, can you talk about the music? Music is almost the same towards my side. We all love reggae and raga, and then on top of hip-hop, the gengeton is just the name, they change. What do you mean this gengeton in Uganda? It's just the name, people create names, people just have names, but music around Kenyan Tanzania is the same. But we just have different names, they say, okay, in our language, this is how we understand it. It's just a language. How do you call gengeton in Uganda? Now you see we have artists in our music industry, we have like Fikfa Maker, we have new artists like Mudra, we have Mungi, they've been doing gengeton, yeah, since long time, yeah. But it's just the style, how they name it, we just call it hip-hop, you know. For us, we are old school kind of things, the way how they were made, we just leave it the way they are and others, they call it Lugaflo, but like here, they call it gengeton as they still means Lugaflo, yeah, no matter how the beat changes, but for us we name it according to the flow and the way how you communicate the message, then the culture remains the same. I've spent some time with you during the music video shoot, and I can tell you have a very brotherly relationship with KERG, how's your relationship with El? All musicians from Kenya, I think most of them, they are my friends, though we always take long time without meeting, but the time that we always meet, we make sure that we make something that is important and useful to the society and community of course towards the music industry. So they are all my friends, even Dufla is my friend, KERG is been my friend of course since long time, but even the person that connected me with him is Aroboy, yeah, Aroboy, but for him of course he knows some, we connected some culture, tradition, we know some, same thing, but Aroboy is the most person that I'm always connected to so much, so he's always introducing me to his other brothers, so that we become one family, so we are trying to create an East African team, so that we can fight as well, so that we can see how East Africa can make it, that's why I come every day, every night, every time, so that we can hook up with my brothers and the good thing I'm a producer and a writer, so when we get together, we believe that we can cooperate and create something that is so big towards our East African music industry, yeah, we are trying to raise up, you know, it's been long when East African artists like cooperate, so first we sat down with Aroboy, KERG, Dufla, and we say yo, let's make something together, like we can make, joining our friends, like those in Buzgang, they're all our friends, but mainly like we said, we can make it just like long time how they made the East African Basement, so we are trying to bring back something that had been already made by our elders, you know, in the music industry, yeah, so we are waking up as well, because it's what took them, you see the Red Sands, the Peter Miles, Baby Cool, Camelons, then again we came, we found those Duakalis, they could always join together, so it's the same thing, yeah, that's the reason now we are trying to make East Africa our home, and same, they come to my country, I come to their country, so now they are all our country, so East Africa is the one country, yeah. You mentioned something to do that you're also a producer, which one do you enjoy more, being an artist or being a producer, which one is like your favorite? Music is something that is a talent, okay, but it's a gift from God, anything that you do towards gifts from God, it is always creativity from the creator, that's why it comes from, it comes from, so I think anything that I involve in music, it's art from God, so whatever I'm doing, I just see myself improving, doing different kind of skills, so I just call it a blessing, so whatever I do, I just love it because it's from God, yeah, because he's love, so, yeah, I have passion and love, you can find me when directing video, because I think you can find me making bit because I've got some, the passion and the love for it, you can find me writing music for someone because it's love, so all we do is, you know, music is love, so that's why you have to do it with love and passion, when you're thinking of different things, live, because you have to do it when you love and you remember that this song is going to the people to listen to it, so when you do that. No, I'm interested, you said if you have a lot in your mind, you just live, you don't try it at that time, when is your favorite time when writing music, when you're creating music, what do you enjoy? I understand some artists go to the forest, others they just, they're very introverted during that time, how is yours like? I think most of the time when you're trying to make music, it doesn't have, there's no like rules for music, yeah, there's no rules for music, you can listen to someone's song, it gives you a vibe, it gives you an idea, you can, no one is perfect in music, music knows itself because we don't own it, it's the inside thing that you feel, then you release out, so you have to be ready to release out that thing, so that's why we record it so that it doesn't run away, yeah, it's a wave. So anyway, you see, for example, when you see people talking, whatever I'm talking here, you are recording it, but how are you recording it? Is it magic? Is it miracle? No, yeah, we are recording it because it's a wave, they record a wave. So the wave that we record, we don't want to forget it, and we also want other people to also feed it so that we have different wisdom, so people have to keep on sharing each other's wisdom and so that they can learn from each other, and that's our impetus, of course, that's why we do music, so music, there's no one who is perfect in music, it doesn't belong to us, it belongs to the love and God, so that's why anything that you sing, there's a reason why you sing in it, there's a reason why you felt it, so deliver it, you never know, it can help anyone out there, that's why even music is into that extent of even healing, cancer, what, many things about music, so we don't know what we are doing, it's just God himself, yeah. Lastly, you know, you've cut your shirt in the middle of the shoot, lastly, are you trying to collaborate with other artists from Kenya? Aye, aye, now for now I've never even collaborated with them. But you're here with Kerje and Dufla? Aye, those are my brothers, we are just looking for collaboration now. We've not even started, that's what I'm trying to mean. Like it's just now, I think we're just trying to look for some big stuff with other musicians so that we can make it bigger, not only for us, but for the East African, like, this is what we are looking at, we are not looking up for ourselves, like for me, like collaboration, that's what I say, now, that's not a collaboration. But we are trying to look for the East African, then, oh, East African, South African collaborations, so we get ourselves as a representative here and then we go and make it together with those ones from other regions of Africa, so that we can make it, so I think for us we are just home. Yeah, we are brothers, so I think there's no collaboration, we're just cooperating then after we look for more collaborations in different regions of Africa, yeah. Thank you so much for talking to us, Daddy Andre, let me now let you go continue the shoot and welcome to Kenya. Sandy, actually welcome to those ones who are coming to Kenya because I'm already home. Okay, thank you so much. Welcome.