 I hope you're having fun because DJ Lil Russian pala kwenye degs ano make sure this is the finest Saturday morning ever. Pate after pate. Na jwe mi isha, it's to shaisa how but it's still a thing anyway. I know and you have to sing it out. That is what I was saying the other time. You can't say it ati pate after pate. You have to sing it out pate after pate. I know. It's just said rules anyway. What are people, where are people requesting the music? Obviously on my pages. Facebook at DJ Lil Russian, Facebook Instagram and Twitter. And of course on our e-circuit page. Yes, definitely. And whatever you request, I have seen you've played a couple of the requests that people sent in the morning. Yeah, nobody is tenderly able to come through. But before we get back to the music and entertainment, we want to have a very interactive discussion with one beautiful lady here by the name Fidesa. She's a gospel artist and she'll tell us about her journey and what she hopes for in the next few years. Welcome. Thank you. How are you feeling today? I thought it was a chilly morning. Very chilly. But hapandan it's very warm. And the music is keeping everything warm. Sure. Yes. So tell us a bit about yourself. Who is Fidesa? Fidesa, I don't know. It's a very simple lady. Fidesa is my stage name, my artist name. But gavai na jua Fidesa, Makena, Kwainge, Mami na Baba. That's what they know. Fidesa Makena. That's my area name. Okay. So Fidesa, what are you talking about? Fidesa. I thought it was your government name. It sounds so good. Yes. It sounds like something I can chip up or even cut it up for a day. I'm happy with one day. But Fidesa, it's derived from Fidesa. So Fidesa, it came about and met one Niki Swahili guru. And Mashaire, I used to write Mashaire kitambo. So he's a villian. But when I met this guy, he was a Mashaire. So when I told him my name is Fidesa, you know the Swahili people. Yeah. Swahili. So it's time to call me Fidesa. So Fidesa, Fidesa, it's starting to enter in my head. He actually wrote a Shairi about me. Okay. And in the book shop out of Taikita, when I told her, Angeli Kamulimuengu, the first page, I called her Fidesa. Okay. That's so sweet. So I adopted the name and I realized it's not a bad name. Okay, thank you. But I think it's my name. Yeah, I actually thought it was your name. See that? Yeah. It's not a bad name. After you met Fidesa, it makes me feel good. Kulimu, kuna ita makena Fidesa. Okay. I love what you're asking. Fidesa, Niki, Angeli Kamulimu sometimes. So Fidesa, it came down. It's easier. Okay. Sisiapa, it's time to talk with Fidesa. More Fidesa and more Fidesa. Good. Tell us about your music. Ulyanzawapi and what challenges have you had along the way? Ah, nilianza kuimba. When I was small, of course. Nikiwa mdoga. I have signed in the Sunday school. Niliwa wukawa tops. Ah, and niliwa na mishon actually. Yeah. Doha najiwa nili lelau shago. And najiwa shags. Then, when I was growing up, watua kujiwa sanakulikum ziki. Okay, watua likuwa najiwa na imba. But, environment, najiwa najiwa najiwa shags watua wajivi tumupsana. So, my parents knew niliwa na talent. But actually, what could you do with it? Yeah. What could you do with it? People would say, nika sema tu, time ya go di kifika, I'll do. I didn't know what to do. But niliwa najiwa kama him songs, nazi change, tunes, you know. Then I present church. Ikiwa like a new song. Ikiwa nika small, small songs. Yeah. And when I came now kutu de sitika exposure kidogo, I was still singing the worship team in every school, kwa churches, nyanimenda. Yeah. But I didn't know kurakode to take me that long. How long did it take you? Very long. Because niliwa nili kum ukuna hi, si kurakode mai college kaisha. 2016. 2016. Now it's 2019. No. What did I say? You said it's 2016. I think I'm losing memory of 2016. 2006. Wow. Okay. No. Yes. Yes, that's a long day. Way back. 2006. So you came to college that time? Yeah, I was coming to college that time. Nika enda nika, maliza kule. Still dreamily kwa. But I was wondering, how do I even start this one thing? Yeah. By the back then music was not, no one thought music as a career. No. No. But now, the kusnili kuna taku fanya, I was like, niki fanya hi kus and get the media, you know, which could be one touch. Was that? I want to come and say, next television production. So I was like, end but a job, you know, kwingi a komiziki a ita kwa hand. But it was not as easy as I thought, you know. But I came to some producer, tuka juwana, likuwa sama indagoriti kona, likuwa na itwa Davia. I don't know where that guy went, to whether he still does music. I went to a studio, nikamita another lady, Limba Songflani, I put my voice there. But then after that, I still like kwingi a na vile nikuwa. So I was not consistent to that, kwenisa studies, thinking about this whole thing, time in Aenda, kagraduate. I went to, I just put a job, so I was like a full-time ministry church, all the time. So when I worshiped him, I got a chance even to travel through singing now in the group. But still I was meeting some artists, kama kina mase iregi, have done BGV for them, kina rusimerin jagi, have done, so still I was not recording, something was going, something was happening. It was not, au kuwacha tukam takasa. Sikuwacha, but at some point I want to scare this courage, na ona time ya kafia, you know, pia music kuna vile kona time ya kia, but siku give up. So finally, with all the struggles, he win, but I recorded it 2016. 2016? Yes. Ten years. Yes. Ulkumi andika 2006. No. Okay, uli andika lineso. Lili andika to that very time, 2016. Okay. After I resigned to my job, then now I recorded it that very 2016. Yes. Now shooting the radio. Hi. Yeah, that has been quite a journey. It's quite a journey. So you wrote it in 2016, you recorded it. 2019. 2019. Okay. So is it still the reasons that you had before? Amma, from between 2016 and 2019 there was something different going on. Sure. What was going on that made that video take so much time. I think to talk about what was happening between 2016 and today, it's a book. I mean, it's a book. Yes, it's a book. Because now, I thought life was hard. But now it struck me as everything is going wrong. Kila kitu, high work. Because I got married in 2014. I had a baby 9 months then time. I resigned to my job. Relationship issues, nearly everything is going wrong. So, when I was recording my music, I was it the illegia manzei. Atakama, I have to push through and to bring something that will encourage me. That's how I came. That's how I was like. That's how I was like. No matter what, nobody can stop me. When I was learning, I was standing on my way and I was like, naweka suda. So, when my music came and I could die, there were so many things happening. So, even if I record this song now, I won't concentrate. I have to work on other things first. Yeah, yeah. Considering now, that's what I'm leaving here. So, when I was working on music, Kanda san kanda, Pambana na, these are the things. So, now, everything from 2016, so many things happened. Now, Kila kitu ika tulia 2019. Okay. That was just the best in time. Mucha good time. Yes. Ika sama maybe, sometimes, when God wants to do something, He will love to have his way in anyway. Yeah. Kusamu sa zingine, wunana kitu maybe mbae na happen, wunana zaku fukiria, kweni Goda kwa pi, you don't even know that piai on his strategy. Yeah, it's still part of the plan. When the plan is there, sila zima ti plani kwa, it's good. Like everything is working. Kweni wunana, e nye nye na na Goda kwa in story. Now, sometimes, those who call bad things can happen, but they're leading you somewhere to make you stronger, maybe. Ama apu na kitu, maybe ingini ngeha happen in between, and God is trying to divert the way the old figure you want to be, because when I look back, I was like, sa zingine na God, you have to forgive me because I thought everything was going wrong. I didn't know that you had a plan. Yeah, because now the song is very timely. Like, very timely. Because now the story changed, but within the same theme. As in, the recording of the audio and the recording of the video, different scenarios, but fitting in the same thing. Yes. Okay, that's interesting. So now it's finally here. And how are people receiving it out there? Being the first song, at first I wasn't sure. I was like, when I got my producer, Sabina Redimt, she's the one who did my video, I called her, I'm like, girl, let's do this thing. He's the one who made the video, able to shoot the video. Now I want to find something very simple, and I believe maybe the reception will be very good, of which the response was very good. It's now close to a month. It's not yet a month old, but close to that time. And the comments are good. The reception will be very good. They saw me on the street, I think I saw you somewhere. You feel like it's getting somewhere, being the first song. They're like, hey, it's very good. Now that you've brought this, what are you planning for us? We want to create pressure for learning. We need now the next thing. We need the next project here. So the reception basically let me say, it wasn't bad for us that. Yes. Okay, nice. So now that you're back and your feet and things are working out, the way you had hoped for them to work out. What is your next project? Are you planning for music to be your full-time career? For now, I can't say I want to do full-time as per now, but maybe at some point it will be, I'm not sure, because within the same music, I want to put in some other things. I want to be a motivational speaker. I want to talk to the young adults. The challenges with life, life is full of things. I feel so bad when I hear, I have a person as committed suicide because of stress, depression. I've come to learn that there's nothing worth depressing or making you kill yourself. It doesn't matter how many rejections, may have suffered rejections, may have died, I give up on life. So, I don't know, kachinis as in Iwanda, may extend to gani, to gani, that makes you feel like I want to kill myself. This is the end. This is the end. So I don't think it's worth anything, but I want young people to understand that we'll have a plan life, the way we plan life. Because you can imagine where we will want to plan what you want your life to be like. You can imagine if everybody thinks the way they want, how the world will be. Crazy chaotic. Seriously. So challenges by their life is very tough. It's not like switching, you know, it's a hassle. You have to go through a lot. But I think if you think positively, I think what people need is mind transformation. You have to change the way you think. Because when Paul was talking to the officials, he was telling them about the renewal of the mind, sometimes you don't need so many things, just change the way you think. It's like maybe I don't like you, but simply it's not that you're bad person. But seriously, for me to rhyme with her or to like her, I just have to change the way I think about her. Why can't I see if I want to pour and forget about all the bad things? You know, you have to change the way you think. Immediately you change your mind, you won't find things difficult to happen. So I think the state of mind is a problem. That's what young people need to understand. Maybe in school, because that relationship is crazy. Like it's bad. A lot of homicides and imagine it's about the way you think about things. If you focus to make sure your mind is thinking straight. And positively. So many things will not be very hard. You won't find yourself killing yourself or running away. It's just phase it. Onata manara because if I run from this problem before I think even the past will follow me. So I didn't fight the small one. Do you think it's what I'll be able to move? You can't. It's true. That's quite inspirational. You're heading there to the motivational speaking. I feel kuna mahali watua me bhuza. I have been touched. Change your mind. Change your mind. That is a story for another day. Maybe you shall come here next time when in that heart is a motivational speaker. But right now I want you to share with our audience, our viewers, your social media pages and where they can get your music. So which camera? That one. So my social media platforms. I'm on Facebook. You just search Fidesa Fidesa. You'll find me there. You get to know so many things about me apart from music. And then you can follow me on Instagram at Fidesa 4. Anything you need there. My schiza tunes you want there in that platform. Also you can go to YouTube and watch my song Fidesa and watch it. Make sure you watch to the end who sees Mamia Apokatikati. You watch to the end then you subscribe because my next song is coming very soon. And those who intend to download my song right now Schiza Tune I have two chords. One is for the chorus. Here you can hear verse one. So kuna mtumunye maybe you don't like chorus but Schiza Tune. So the chorus is SMS Schiza 8-5-6-9-8-7-9-8-1-1 If you want the first verse of my song SMS Schiza 2-5-3-2-1-9-6-9- 2-8-1-1 then you'll get your Schiza Tune. Thank you so much for making time to join us today. Yes, we appreciate your presence. Thank you for accepting to host me to my pleasure. We want you to perform your new song Mbele so that people can see what you're talking about and how talented you are. Up next we have Mbele by Fidasa.