 I have Immanuel, Immanuel Revard says yo what's up Nezio I say I'm tuning from Lakeside of Kisumu town awesome show but I rock queen oh I love you please play for me knives and pants by Black Veil Brides going out to all my metal heads in Kenya I love y'all and we love you too much love to Kisumu thank you so much for watching now Iman Gem says I can't afford to miss the lovely faces on our screen look at that Iman thank you he is always coming to me he's always present I wish I were to you Iman I say my greetings the Morocco the Moroccesters I'm VP when I say I'm Salimiana VP the ones the Moroccans are Salimiana, Trudy and Janiyade, what's up what's up how you doing, Habaliaco, Jambo Buwana I know right oh and my sister is watching for the first time she is never home, she's home welcome to the club, welcome to the club she's become a convert polepole yeah let's hear it to you, she's tuned for the first time I'm Jambo, I'm at the studio I'm a permanent director I'm 25-15 hey Buwana hey Buwana I'm a great director but you know he's a real fan, he knows okay I'm Salimum Swahili Buwana and I come here and I tune Zaki Swahili Jamani I'm from the Czech Republic and I'm an official Zaki official I'm Abdul you don't remember he had Abdul on the show Zaki, yeah Salim is from Fikia now we have Mike together you know he's always late he's always like yo I just got here and you guys are always out but also still I'm a lucky dog alright now so Mike together awesome show nice to catch up with you today we know right now I'm gonna be shouting out some more people and I have so many people on Twitter like us well and still on the White Faithful channel but first let's meet our guest of today yo you guys I know I'm so excited Zaki now you can can you say hello to the keyboard hi Nairobi what's up how you doing I'm hanging out with huge skills I'm trying to say I'm good now but it's hard, feeling feeling, it's not hard I can't say it but my sister's name is Marilyn my other sister's name is Marilyn and my dad used to say if it gives way to a guy it's gonna be Franklin so feeling so hard alright that's amazing now Zaki I'm gonna give you a chance for the first time just introduce yourself for the guys at home who've never had about you, never seen you I do have the honor of introducing yourself to the guys at home with my voice okay hi guys my name is Zainab Suley I am a Nigerian singer songwriter come soft rock musician and I'm here in Nairobi for a show on Saturday it's gonna be amazing yeah we're looking forward to that I'm looking forward to it more so guys you better get your tickets she is the queen and I'm not even just saying that that's what everybody says that's what everybody calls her she's literally the queen of soft rock wow so Zainab so at what age did you realize that you had a passion for music and specifically rock music at what age I actually think I evolved because I started with country music when I was really young I started with country music and my dad used to play Don Williams and Dolly Parton but then I got to school when I was in the university I was like oh shit you're not gonna make any money from this shit so I started listening to contemporary country which is a little bit rockish popish and I'm like oh this is a better version so I started listening to more then I fell in love with Pink she's my idol she's the one that's okay when you say Pink is it Pink or Pink Floyd no no Pink Pink Pink not Pink Floyd and that was a hard but Pink yeah so all the songs I grew up on almost all her songs I was like okay yeah this is more like what I wanted to alright so how do your parents take it now on this Zainab you know what I'm gonna pick up the guitar and I wanna do music even though I'm still in school but I wanna do music how do they take it my dad hated it yeah he's military he said my daughter is never gonna on to the first day I gave him his check his first check from a gig and I'm like yeah this is your check and he's like okay yeah boy now I can convince him but he's never been for it they want me to be a doctor you know the whole blood thingy I don't want and it's not a career help me when the money comes in it's good she was born a talent from the first time I was the one that bought her a guitar they started taking the glory when they're not the one that did it actually I know right now who are some of your influences growing up and some like Coldplay is one of them so yeah very late in life I started being compared to Tracy Chapman and I'm like no she's cool but when I started getting compared I was like no I was more like Kelly Clarkson yes Kelly Clarkson I didn't too like her but she was one of my influences as well as Pink Alice Marie said Coldplay those are the people that I listen to so the first time you picked up a guitar and started playing did you go from music classes like the typical way not everybody does that especially for rock artists rock you have to know your music you have to know your guitar yeah you have to know your instruments exactly so did you take classes did you teach yourself I couldn't play shit I couldn't play anything but everyday I would wake my mother up and be like I want a guitar and if you don't buy me a guitar God will punish you I was a terrible child I like that cue I was a terrible child and my mother just one day woke up and said hey you stand up stop on child come let us go and buy the guitar and then I got to the guitar store and they're like okay so big guitar do you want I'm like anyone I couldn't play shit so you didn't know so I just picked it and did like this to the guy and I was like yeah this sounds better and I took it I couldn't play anything so it took me a while but mostly I did it on google then way back there was no youtube so we had videos from people like Paul Baloch he used to send videos he used to watch on cd on cds so we started doing that and we're like a gang and some foreigners would come they're so good and they play and we the Africans we don't know shit but we look at them and we ask them how long have you been playing and they say we've been playing for like 2 years we've been playing for like 4 years and we didn't know shit so they ask us how long have you been playing oh we just started we knew we don't know how to play the guitar so we started doing that for a while and then when you hang out with them it grows on you and you become even better so you've been in Kenya before it's not your first time how can you compare the Kenyan rocks with the Nigerian Kenyan is maybe worlds ahead cause there is so much support for Kenyan and Nigerian most of us we have to come together and do it our own self but here you have even a TV like you guys have the Metal Fest you have so many shows that go full Kenyan rock so you guys are like years ahead we're hoping to get there and we're hoping the more musicians we appeal to more musicians to come in so what can you say has been the biggest challenge you've encountered as an artist in rock scene or just an artist in general what has been the biggest challenge being taken serious cause we're not mainstream and you have to the average person thinks you don't make any money because you're singing rock and you have to be a divi though or something because it's not mainstream so they're like what comes with that there's no way no no you have shows abroad we don't sell so much and you just have to keep doggedly going for that one and find a way to build the band but don't put your eyes so much on the money and then the money will come it's following you I look like it's following you it's following you man what's the best thing about being an artist for you? oh freedom, like I'm here in Kenya freedom you own your life man it's actually a job also a part like most people don't know this but you have a career like you went to school, you have a degree yes she has a degree in mathematics we like driving this home cause you know there's this studio time that's really happening around there's rockers and those guys we just giving up on life you know, they're in school good grass in school so usually like us guys we went to school we're those guys who have those grades I'm going to dump the car and like I gave my mom my certificate and said you can have it now can I play my guitar now but I don't like to push that part alright now I want to also understand like apart from music not that, I wanted to ask you about your album Hypersonic right? it came out a while back and you've been promoting it in Nigeria and abroad and it's an iTunes, I saw that so how is it doing what inspired it cause the first track is Hypersonic but there are so many other tracks so there are 12 tracks I know your favorite and how is it performing you can just play we shouldn't even think about it you know with parents they have a favorite but they never admit it they're like I love all my kids so I thought that was going to be the same case that's my favorite actually no comment, no argument but Hypersonic has a favorite because I wrote the song from a place of it meant so much to me it was my song there are some songs you write for people and then there are some songs you write for yourself so the song is actually for me how do I tell people that it's for someone else you know how to sing but Hypersonic has been good I have this thing that sometimes it costs us but sometimes we have to so if we do music what's common with us is that we do one we do again and it doesn't sink so I always have this thing that if I do I want to be able to beat my chest and say I've done as much as I can for this I've had two previous albums before this one but yeah please don't ever call but so I put in so much work for this one I even spoke to one of the Kenyan producers then before the album came out because I wanted to do something here you should actually do something here or stay high or you should move to Kenya Kenya is amazing it's amazing I am a fan of Kenya seriously but I wanted to and I just wanted to give the album so much life some of the songs have videos before but there were songs from other albums that I had to redo yeah so that's it but I have something that's like my baby right now amazing now you've been on so many stages you've performed at so many platforms what has been the biggest platform you've performed at so far and which one was your favorite and also the highlight yeah we want to know what has been the highlight of your career so far oh shit that's some crazy question okay yeah the biggest platform I would have said US but it was in Tanzania when I went with this action aid because most times when you sing and you don't know how the songs impact then I get the request that you have to start writing songs for this woman and in Kilimanjaro they had yes they had this thing that women farmers don't have they don't have a land when their husbands die and they say Zina you come write a song and then they flew me down my guys down to Tanzania and then there were no youth there were only women and I'm like if you can sing to this you can sing anywhere and I saw them and they were all elderly and they all stood up and it was crazy yeah those those those so that was your highlight so far but the biggest stage was in the US of course definitely how would you ask right but I want to know one thing now the June 27th show it's going to be a crooked queue I will tell you guys tickets are going for she's going to be playing alongside Rash there's 20 more days there's crystal axes DJ Towns is going to be a whole lot like all rockers are going to be there so make sure you're not left out as guys are going to be there too but the event is actually dedicated to depression I wanted you to talk to us about that why do you feel they need to do that I have a lot of friends who commit suicide and in the US the sound person that was assigned to us committed suicide 8 months before the show yeah so it's going around it's like a snake it's just going around so I'm like why you think about love man why you think about marching and stuff let's find a cause and do something that would because rockers are the most depressed we get high and we just forget everything we're like oh shit no money kill me already but come to this show come to rock show where depressed people are and come see that you're loved yeah people like you it just doesn't have to end there so I wanted to direct the music to something else apart from marching oh actually that's deep by the way people need to talk about these more and you need more music about this so when is the next album coming okay I gave myself like a a mandate I've been doing so many songs by myself so with that I'm applying for collables but not with no no those are my people why collaborate with your person you guys are friends so go around your people you guys always be friends so why just move somewhere else and pick someone else maybe I see Ugandan I would collaborate more with Ugandan than Nigerian because we're home we're literally all the same shows we're together and still on that in Kenya is there anyone you're looking forward to walking with there go like 10 names with you right now yes please please do we want to know do you have anything on the way with anyone I've been talking to I've not spoken but I have I know I did speak to Andromeda oh that's Nick I just spoke once that was 2017 about recording something but no the person is in my chest I'm not telling you guys well you can forward to that now I think Tenet is a very dark place we know that and you need a support system so how do you deal with your critiques that is number one and number two like critiques and people you know buying energy the negativity and also when something like that happens who is your support system okay I do a lot of drawing because you know physical design so I shut down but another thing is I have an insane amount of confidence so I had to die to self kind of like men just kill yourself already so you control me for all you like I'm just gonna be like oh wow can you add one more so I had to do that because the internet is crazy like you said the same suicide thing we're talking about can make you spiral so you have to tune off one thing about the internet people never remember the good things about it the bad things you do one bad thing and you'll be remembered for life like you memed especially now people will meme you it's really bad but yeah that's really really amazing I just have to turn off and do it all you would just get because you can spend hours on someone's Instagram or Facebook and start getting depressed and everything I'm like no please alright so one thing one advice you would give to a young Zynab out there anyone okay maybe not Zynab let's say whoever is out there watching you and they have the same dreams and ambitions eyes you what would you advise them and then as I get the cake right here maybe the problem is you have cake I think there's something you haven't mentioned do you know she's the mother I'm not a mother I thought you're a mother oh no please god no I guess she's got a huge cat don't learn on your own because I need to know if you're playing that game because I've seen some scenes on the first one oh those are nephews and nieces where did you see those ones that's me that's probably my sister's kids go chill I just want to I'm going to draw that from somewhere you want to get some Kenyan kids and that's what such a body do we like Zynabs just because he's talked about little Zynabs yeah that's the right place alright so any prospects and then play for us as I get the cake for us guys right here we need to cake up okay so my advice to the ones coming up Isaac you're going to see crazy disappointments but if you really want it bad enough you're going to go all the way if you want it bad enough so alright okay I'm just going to do it as we are still here I'm just going to play it's for coming it's my pleasure man you've been amazing she really learned something I can't say the word but you know what I mean yeah thank you thank you thank you guys at home for watching the show unfortunately we're out of time I couldn't even be able to stand out love to people they were very promised but shout out to everybody who tuned in including Mash for Babbles he just reminded me like you have to shout me out so I shout out to Mash for Babbles I thank you so much for watching the show and everybody else who was tuned in and this is the one by Isaac hello hi guys hi we have Kevoh on the camera how can I forget that Kevoh you can come right here the cake is here we're about to get in this cake to eat the cake up yes not to get inside the cake now our hashtag is rocktor2p4 rocktor1 I told you we are tining one for the whole month yes we're going to have cake every single Saturday so come through next week if you're out there just DM me and I'll invite you to the studio you can come right here and we're going to eat cake and have some good music yes and have fun shout out to Fadili our director there's Faith Pali Volkwa Sound there's Yvonne as well there's so many guys who made the show possible and every team rock tour we love and appreciate you guys now the show runs each and every Saturday from 5pm to 7pm the repeat is on Tuesday that is at oh his clothes are even coming to us from Bali Sena we love you we love you alright cool now each and every Tuesday that's when we have the repeat from that is from 8.30pm to 10.30pm I love who that is EDM soft rock that's on Wednesday at 5pm I love who cash out 10am now I'll be sure to see you guys and thank you for watching don't go away watch for folks who have so many programs so stay with us and we'll see you next week bye