 Alright, beautiful people, welcome back to yet another exciting segment of the interview section right here on Tanakali on Y254. Now I have a very interesting artist. Let me tell you, they breathe, culture, they breathe, art, from everything they wear, from how, you know what, let me not give too much into it. His name is Swagadon. Hi, really appreciate the fact that every single detail has been put to tea from your painting on your face to the, all the way down to your shoes. Sure, all my clothes myself, all my fashion portrays Africa, my fabrics, I design my fabrics, my outfits, my shoes, and of course my paints. In videos, I direct my videos. I also have a creative director and work with cinematographers to create the tech. I go to any of the other countries, yes, that is Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, wherever. I am always there to promote Africa in its first contact. I'm originally from Trinidad but I will say I'm an African Caribbean and I'm an African in all its ramifications. Yeah, well I lived in the UK for some time and then I moved to Nigeria. I live in Nigeria and now I also live in Kenya. I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time here getting over the country. I will say that now I'm a Kenyan artist because I've been doing collaborations with Kenyan artists like Prezzo, Kelo Fico, Lopa, Raparev, you know, and also I'm collaborating with others in South Africa, Melody and others. So what I'm doing is creating a genre between the Caribbean jobs, Soka, Reggae, Plus, you know, Dengaton, I'm a piano, Afrobeat, Afropop. It's all part of putting the African culture on the road map. The religiosity, everything African. That's me. I'm the spirit of Africa. Important thing is you show African culture in its true form. Many people have a watered down promotion of Africa. Why? Because we're bringing other people's culture, you know. For example, some of the things we don't do as Africans, we are kings and queens. We don't walk around half naked with our bottoms out and those are cultures that are adopted from the West. Why would we or should we bring that into our culture and change how our culture has been for centuries? So African culture, we walk around, we have our passions, we have the way we talk, we have musical, we are creative. We don't need to behave as though we are from the gutter, you know, and a lot of artists unfortunately portray, you know, the adopted genres of music from outside. And most of those music from outside do not portray Africans as they should portray. For example, my cinematographers must have, you know, some sort of affinity to pan-Afrofinism in the way they shoot, you know, in the way they are also musical, they are creative people and make sure that those who I work with share the same affinity my dancers must also, you know, want to dance, you know, African steps to Africa in its culture, cultural form, because a lot of our African people have natural dances that we must promote. Why is it some of the dancers from Uganda and Tanzania are so famous all over? That is because they're dancing, they're using dance steps from their culture in 2019 and I came back alive and when I came back alive I was guided by our ancestors that, you know, they gave me gifts of music, of creativity and I should use that as part of the African Renaissance. So when I got back from hospital, within a month I went into the studio and started recording and I started recording. I already had in mind what I had to do in terms of making sure that I packaged myself in a pan-African way. I have made sure that the music I'm doing, you know, crosses all the borders and all the genres from the Caribbean to Africa. Do not adopt Western cultures and Western way of dress and Western way of slang, etc. It is alien to us. We don't live in the hood. Music is carrying messages and some of those messages are subliminal and if you carry the right positive message you will influence in the right positive way but if you carry negative messages you will also influence in the negative way. So my role is to promote subliminal positive messages for our youth, for people, you know, think back. What is ours? We have our own spirituality, the Ang, Egypt, the Ethiopian Cross, Ethiopia, all those we have to get back as part of our culture and part of our music because we have music which has vibrations, you know, we have music which has vibrations and those vibrations are energy, they send out positivity, positive music. So we embrace those things and get those as part of our culture reinstated in whatever we do. Musically, creatively, you know, however we walk, talk, we are musical even the way we walk. In the way we talk, you talk to me, it's beautiful tones, it's musical, they say Africans speak and walk and talk, musical, we do because we are part of the rhythm of the year, you know, we are definitely written people and creative. Look out for Nduswaga, Ale, Ale exclusively, you have Carpenter, you have African Township, you have Lorraine, which I produced and also I did the video in Mombasa. So I'm promoting Kenya so you can go straight to the YouTube and see the various videos and songs and we are Swagadon Facebook. Just look up Swagadon, just type Swagadon and look it up and let's Y254 the music.