 to hashtag entrepreneurship Tuesday at Y in the morning at Y254 channel is where you can find us across all our social media handles at Michelle Ashira is where you can reach out to me in this particular session we look into another interview about getting to understand how important it is to invest in the music industry and joining me is none other than Binti Raqail hello how you doing I'm fine how you I am no we are happy to have you on board this day okay so starting us off when did you discover that you have talent in singing I'm okay I discover like three years ago that I've been singing church youth choirs since I was young but I never realized that it's gonna be part of my life so I think three years back that's when I discovered that I can really write something and put it into a song okay and why did you take you long to actually you know manifest whichever you actually desire for the longest period of time in your life you happen yeah yeah so when you just still okay when we are growing you still learning and you still come along with many challenges so it takes time to realize okay so how long have you been into the music industry now three years now mm-hmm okay so when you're starting off what a couple of challenges you're facing just getting into this new space and what were you employed prior to this are you in this full time at the moment now I'm not in it's full time because it hasn't started to give me much revenue yet yeah okay so for someone who is watching this and they really want to get into the music scene but there's also the aspect of you and as much as some the expectations that you have that you have to invest before you actually get your returns well you tell that person who feels that I'm not about to jump you know and take a risk like that one okay music come come with passion so first if you have the passion that's the first step and if you want you okay next I think you also have to have like a good job or a review that can assist you in doing the music and also yeah you shouldn't give up did you have someone who held your hand while starting off in this industry okay I have my family and partly some friends who really give me a courage and push me up yeah what was your experience when you went to the studio for the first time and which song was that that you went to actually record okay it's weird because the first song that I made I didn't put it on the studio but the first song that I did on the studio was a Christmas song all right so looking back I'm just checking your profile on YouTube you have a couple of songs these are Pokemon song known as I want I don't want to mispronounce this word the Pokemon song it's me time which means I'm it's sweet it's it yeah and then these I do and then what I've noticed is that there's a like a back-to-back release from August and just your reason jam I did I do yes I do yeah so is that like an intentional was that an intentional upload or intentional release of your music yeah okay what was the whole idea about it okay I actually did the videos early this year before COVID so after COVID started I was like I didn't know how to release them you know so that's why it took a long time a long time to release like almost what I have time okay looking back three years down the line do you regret venturing into this space no I don't regret at all because I think music is part of me and I really feel happy and content inside all right for someone who is watching this and let's go back to the fact that it's an investment right before you get any return it's like any other business so for someone who is watching this and wondering I'm I'm working somewhere else maybe employed or running my own business and then these music I'm actually just putting in all like it's definitely investment and waiting to the returns how do you show your patient and actually persistent and just going forward yeah okay actually if you have just like I've said before you have to have the passion and also music it's not like one thing like you can see my first video I did it on 2017 then I saw it's something that you have it has to be consistent you have to put you more energy into it so consistency is also very important right and what makes you like resilient because it's not easy yeah that's why I say if it has to be passion okay Raquel you have a different sound when comes to music and you have numerous amazing artists currently in the game what is so different about Raquel okay what's different about me okay I think it's because I do all kind of music okay yeah and I find it so difficult to specialize in one of them because I really want to write my idea and what is my it's in my mind so when I say I only specialize in gospel it's it's difficult for me to do that so I just decided I'm going to do all of them okay so you don't put in a box explore yeah all right so I've listened to your performance song and I loved it even though I understand I think about the same it's about love so on that note let's listen into one of your song and then we'll get back to this conversation all right