 Why 254? Imagine. All right. Just welcome to our gospel interlude on Social Friday, on Why in the Morning. And the word of the day is Wastahili. Who better to explain this to us than Sarah Mutevia Karibusana, our first guest of the day. Thank you so much. All right. Your camera is number four. Just introduce yourself, how you like to be introduced. Okay. Hello, everyone. My name is Sarah Mutevia. I am a gospel singer. I have released my song, my first song. I released it three weeks ago. It's called Wastahili. It's a gratitude song. It's a worship song. It's just a song that makes you feel closer to God and reflect on your journey up to where you are. All right. So Wastahili is our word of the day. Yes. You're going to be our preacher, our guest preacher of the day. But before you give us the word of the day, maybe we can get into your background a bit. How did you get to this point right here? Because I was made to understand you're a journalist as well. Yes, I am a journalist, but everyone knows that during this COVID-19 period, a lot of us have been not laid, not fired, but we are not working. So I found myself with a lot of time, my free time. The positions do not exist anymore. The positions still exist, but we are on unpaid leave for now because half of the stuff was retained at my place of work and the rest of us, it only remained the essential stuff. So I found myself with a lot of work, a lot of time on my hands, and I've always been a singer. I'm a worshipper. I lead, praise and worship in my church. So with the time I found myself writing, I've always written, but it never really materialized to anything. Now, with the time I had, I just started writing and I told my husband, my husband is a music producer. I told him, I think I'm ready to go to the studio and maybe this... Just send him a shout out as well. Yeah, my husband is called Homozi Bosco. I love you very much. Nakupenda Sana, he's Rwandan. Yeah. Oh, he's from Rwanda. Yeah, he's from Rwanda. But you're from the 254. I'm from the 254. All right. There's this craze. It happens to be God's plan for me. God's plan for you. We met. I never even imagined I would marry someone from Rwanda, but we met and we fell in love. We had a lot of things in common and we've been married for over a year now. That's a beautiful ring. Put it on your finger right now. Thank you. Shout out to him. So that's some wedding day that VDJ Khalifa played really took you away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. VDJ Khalifa played really took you places. Yeah. It reminded me of a year ago when I said I do. It was a beautiful day. I'll never forget. Wow. Wonderful. All right. So you say you found yourself during this corona period. Yeah. And so many people have come out to say they've found themselves during this corona period. Yeah. And some people have not found themselves yet. Is it too late to start? Yes. If somebody is watching us right now that they have not found themselves and wanna kill them through finding themselves. Is it too late for them? It's never too late to start. And I think God has a time for everyone and your time is coming. Just because you've not gotten there it does not mean that you will not get there. You will still get there. It's just timing. As long as you keep your faith and keep your eyes focused on Jesus you're gonna get there and your time is coming. Just keep believing in him and keep doing whatever you're doing whatever passion you have you never know when you're gonna blow up and you never know when God is going to lift you up just keep using it because I've been singing for a very long time ever since I was very young and it is just now that I am beginning to put my talents into something that everyone can see but I have been doing it even in small spaces where nobody knows you you never know what's gonna come out of that and that's where you don't just wake up and become something the next day there has to be a growth process there has to be some modding there has to be some learning so that you can have a story to tell. There has to be some learning in the process learning is an integral part of this finding yourself. It's an integral part of it. Alright, I feel that. So the word of the day as we said earlier is was-tai-in. Was-tai-in. What does this word mean to you and why did it end up being the title of your verse? Was-tai-in is a Swahili word. As we all know it means you are worthy and it's a verse in Revelation it says was-tai-in wana-kondol ye-chindra the lamb who was slain for my sin for my wholeness so that I can be whole again and I just thought about my journey and many other people's experiences in life where you can just look back and say if it were not for God I would not be here if it was not for His grace I would not be here so you look back and you say true it is only God that is worthy of my praise nie-pe-ke an-ai-stahili i-ba-di-angu and there is no one I can give credit to other than Him therefore I wrote that song to say thank you God you are worthy to be worshipped you are worthy to be praised you brought me here and if it was not for you I would not be here. Alright, that is deep right there I've been listening quite cleanly if you missed any part of that you can find it on YouTube sometime later but that was quite deep how is it working with your hubby in the studio how is the experience like? it's amazing because he knows my strengths and when I'm doubting myself he keeps telling me you can do this he encourages me a lot and he also does he make fun of you sometimes? not very much not very much but sometimes just for like moments but he's an amazing guy and he's so much fun to work with and he whenever I want to do a song I've done several other songs but they're not out yet they'll be out maybe I'm releasing another one two weeks from now but he connects me to other producers as well he tells me so and so is better in this style than I am he's such a good just a cool guy sent from heaven yeah, sent from heaven perfectly for me alright, I agree so as a producer is he open to working with other artists as well? he's very open to work so can other budding gospel artists like you who have found themselves during this period get in contact with them after they listen to you on my social media my name is Sarah Mutevia S-E-R-A-H Mutevia Mutevia it's not Mutevia it's Mutevia with a Y they can find me as well as on my emails it's Sarah S-W-1 at gmail.com and on social media Twitter I'm Sarah Mutevia Facebook I'm Sarah Mutevia Instagram I'm Sarah Mutevia you can just DM me and we will work together for the glory of God alright so the last two questions the last two questions are opinion based I'm sorry for putting you on the spot like this it's alright, I'm ready I hope alright, so we had a video in our new segment of Rington if you know Rington a gospel artist in Kenya yeah, I do know Rington it was talking about having shoes worth 1.5 million okay as compared to his brothers were driving 200,000 shilling cars alright and another one driving 1.5 million car the same one has his shoe I don't have a problem with that he says God has blessed him because he's doing the Lord's work but there's a point where he said this brother who's driving a 200,000 shilling car is doing the work of the devil because he said that? yes okay because this guy was perceived as a gospel artist now he's perceived as a secular artist because of the people he's working with and what not this brother I'm talking about is Bahati as you have seen his career curve do you think it's in any man's position to say so and so he's doing the work of the devil I'm doing the work of the Lord what do you think about that personally I don't think I would say so and so he's doing the work of the Lord I don't know the conversation that they had with God I don't know their assignment I don't know what God told them to do maybe God told them to sing about love and encourage people I would only speak for myself whatever if rington is wearing a shoe of 1.5 million shillings and that is all good for him if Bahati thinks that working in the secular space is what is really true to him and then I don't judge and the Bible says that we are not the ones to judge only God can judge and only those guys understand their calling and their aim in this industry so I would not say anything about that everyone is entitled to their opinion I like that you quoted the Bible and the quote is only God can judge only God can judge because we are not perfect everyone has their own flaws I would not say rington is this and Bahati is this they are all different people differently enabled differently talented and whatever they want to do is up to them I have no point in it I just wish them the best Thank you very much Ford that one as well let's finish this and you can tell us moving forward you've told us your plans you're dropping another song in two weeks but moving forward what is the what of encouragement you can give the people who are watching us right now there's a lot going on in the world there's a lot of politics in parliament people are forgetting that the revenue is being distributed in parliament right now as we speak people are forgetting that COVID-19 is real people are getting back to their normal lives so there's a lot going on in the world the economy is quite tight for many of us because people have lost their jobs as you said what is that word of encouragement that you can give the viewers right now moving forward I just want to encourage you your story is still being written by the creator of heaven and earth so do not give up yet he still has you in mind you are still going to make it your time is still coming and as for the COVID-19 please just continue taking care of yourself the safety measures that have been provided by the government wash your hands wear your mask even as we trust God to protect us we also have to do our part you don't go and throw yourself into a fire and say that God is going to save me that just doesn't make any sense you have a part to play so please play your part and God is the only one who can protect us but we can also do our part and like I said before just feel encouraged that do not give up just yet there are times that in life you see this life is defeating me I'm not going to make it but I just want to encourage you to keep trusting in God and putting your faith in Jesus if you are a Christian and whatever else you believe in just keep the faith and God is going to hold your hand faith is the most important that belief without proof yeah that belief without proof alright thank you very much for that I'm going to be coming back to you and you're going to do a simple task for me you're going to since you're a journalist like myself you're going to introduce your song and then you're going to tell people to check it out on YouTube and then you're going to tell them it's premiering on Y2F4 for the first time what not just collect the thoughts in your head and then I'll be back to you are we fine? not right now just collect the thoughts let me talk to the people a little bit alright so yes we are on Facebook as well Y2F4 and the question on Facebook is what is that crazy thing that your teacher did when you were in school that one crazy thing that you remember that teacher doing when you were in school what's Y2F4 come on CC VDJ Khalifa a lot went on in school you can't miss a story if you went through the same system we went through so we are looking forward to your views your comments and suggestions as well and requests where they come and VDJ Khalifa just remind them how they can get a hold of your mixes because they are saying Zimesh Kamoto Zimesh Kamoto Zimesh Kamoto Zimesh Kamoto Zimesh Kamoto Dreams of Atami Zangwai here are these VDJ Khalifa MixCloud VDJ Khal Trustee YouTube VDJ Khalifa alright so that is VDJ Khalifa for you is going to be 7 S music all the way till 10 we still have another interview Don't Forget the matrix is in the building so Bård Sasa it's Sara is that hello everyone my name is Sara I'm gonna say I have a song and it's called Wastahili a song of gratitude a song of worship and it's on YouTube You can find me on YouTube, it's Sarah Montever and right now it's going to premiere for the first time on Y254, it's called Wester Healy. 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