 Oh, sorry, sorry, oh my God! I'm so excited to meet her here. We know how we love her so much, and we're so honored to have her on the show. Who am I talking about? I'm talking about Joyce Omoni, the very beautiful Joyce. Where are you guys? Watch out, do you want me to see it? She's very beautiful. That is between us. See, I'm going to say it. Thank you, girl. Thank you, you wish to have that, Joyce. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for having me on the show. It's such a pleasure, yeah? What do you think? Yes. Freyjavgil. Yeah, I was tempted to play at TBT, so not at TBT. Actually, it still looks new in Itwakonkara. And so I think it's one of my favorite among your songs. Thank you. Today, Nakwonga blessing to me. Amen. It's an honor to have you today. Thank you very much. So, this is something we do here on J.C. Circle. OK. We have friends of J.C. Circle shop. Those are our viewers and those who keep in touch with us on social media. So, Salami are friends of J.C. Circle. Wow, which camera? This one. So many friends of J.C. Circle. I pray that you are well this morning. Thank you very much for tuning in to the show. And God bless you and may he continually guide your paths in all that you do. Yes, now you can tell us more about yourself. Well, so, Joy Samondi, first and foremost, I'm a daughter of the Most High King. In addition to that, I am a wife to an incredible husband. I am a minister of the gospel through song. I am a TV host, and I am a founder of a women's empowerment movement. And I'll be sharing about that later on. But I do all of those things and more. But most of all, I just I love God and I love people. And I'm excited to be able to share what he's given me with others. Amazing. Thank you so much. Now we want to talk about music. Music, is it something you really wanted to do? Is it something you had planned to do or is something you just met along the way? And you decided to do it? Yeah, well, I mean, I grew up sort of from a musical family. My granddad was in a band. So I had a saxophone and the trumpet. My parents, they were in the choir together. Canisani, that's how they met. Then they got married. And my dad had bought me a toy piano when I was three years old. And I used to just gong it all the time. So he was like, I love that she wants to learn how to play the piano. So he actually went and bought me a proper piano, an upright piano. And then I started lessons. So by the time I was six, I was in the worship team. I was playing the keyboard and eventually grew to be like the lead keyboardist in our church. But honestly, all of this was never just not the plan. It was not what I wanted as even in like girls like the worship leaders at church. We formed a group, the female ones. We were called wow, women of worship. Oh, wow. And so I used to be the one to play the keyboard for them. Then they used to come and be like, come and lead this song. And I just, I never used to like that. So honestly, it's been a journey. I struggled writing music. Then only after some certain experiences in my life is when God started depositing songs in my life. So now I am out here after a lot of hesitation, a lot of nervousness, a lot of self doubt. But God has been faithful and to hear how my songs have impacted people. I still have that piano. My dad bought me. All of my songs have been written on it. Imagine, since the time I was four years old. So interesting. Did you make some and you can push up the story of Timothy and his, his, his grandmother and his mom. They will be passed the faith down. They will be passed the music down to you. I guess so. Amazing. That is so amazing. Yes, let me, let me, maybe you can just describe your kind of music, your genre. Sure. Yes. For me, you know, there's a lot of talk that goes on in this gospel industry about, and it's disturbing that even secular guys now start questioning the social music that we do, right? So for me, I believe my fans and the people who follow my journey know my music as scripture based. Me, I sing the word of God. I sing it back to him. My songs are not about myself. Yeah. My songs, I believe worship is about an object before us. And that's what we do. Anything that we, you ascribe a lot of power to and a lot of attention to you worship it. And for me, that person is God. So my songs are based on scripture. And it's not Jesus that you may add to God, but I don't know. Like I literally find my inspiration from scripture. And I, my songs are really love songs to God and just declarations of what he has promised in his word. Love song. Love song to God. Yeah. I've never heard of that. This is the first. Anyway, there's a difference between, oh, Mr. Ma, you write your own songs. So there's a difference between ministry and industry. Okay, so there's a difference between ministry and industry. There's a difference between ministry and industry. Well, I was told that too once. I went somewhere to sing. I wouldn't say with Kinanani. But I was told that I was going to attend the ceremony. I was told that I was going to be patting their pockets, right? So I'm like, what's going on? So the aid that I was with at the time went to be like, what's happening? Like what's going on? What's for Joyce? I love what I'm doing. I'm the artist. Joyce is the minister. Wow. So I guess the artist is going to be there. I'm the minister. The minister is going to be here tonight. And he's going to say, God bless you. So he's going to be there tonight. God bless you. but look I mean God has been so faithful I mean I've been in this journey for a little bit in and out you know doing other things but it doesn't bother me because I think motive is very important in everything that we do whether you're a DJ a TV host a musician your motive is very important so I believe that our gifts will make room for us and God will provide for our needs so for me I'm dependent on God not fans response I'm not looking at you to views to determine my whether not even my my worth whether what I'm doing is me my audience is one because I came to an realization very early on in my career that I could have a million people screaming my name 10,000 10 million views but God is not pleased with me and for me that is what matters the most so if that one voice is not happy it doesn't matter if 10 million are so you know in my life I have chosen to make that sacrifice and that means then I am very strict about what I sing about and I don't compromise my content to create a hit song right and sometimes it means that I have to be willing to pay the cost to work elsewhere to get my you know provisions and you know my income but as long as my ministry remains just that ministry then that's a cost that I'm willing to pay yes speaking of resources in terms of money there's something unique about you you've done two albums yes what made you do albums because what I hear this is that albums are very very costly and even you'd not give it your all yes what's your take on that so honestly because going back to my journey about not being able to write music so it so happens that both of my albums have been written after I graduated from school okay the first one was after I graduated college and up until that point I was never able to write music and then I don't know I'll just be up at 3 a.m. I can hear everything conquer I could hear like these are the drums I want the baseline to go like this like I could hear everything and before I knew it I had like 10 songs written okay might as well put them in an album similar process with spirit versus so it took you know a few years between conquer and that one because I went back to school came back to the country and then those songs began to to come into into life so for me it's kind of just been like I have this collection of songs anyways so let me put them in a way that I can give them out to people but also I do a lot of church tours sometimes and when you go to churches people are like so albums for me for me so far you know but I understand I mean obviously consumption patterns are changing so maybe from hell start now James you know they say every song is a Samo and there's this one song you did that's my favorite because it's actually speaks to my spirit called satisfy yeah fridge to be about it's a beautiful song and it just that one has a very special place in my heart satisfy for me it's just that reminder that everything I'm chasing is futile unless God is at the center of what I'm doing and what I'm pursuing and I think I was just struggling with my own challenges at the time and I was just trying to remind myself like God even if this thing doesn't work out it is you that's going to give me happiness it's not a job you know as young people and the economy has been tough so a lot of young people are like no there's plenty of people who have fantastic jobs I had a very high-flying job and I still wasn't satisfied right there are people who are we were just watching a movie by the late Robin Williams the other day and he was famous beyond fame making money all over the place and he wasn't satisfied with struggling with some issues took his own life so it was just that reminder that really only in God can we find sort of all satisfaction there is that God-shaped hole in all of us you can fill it with whatever else you want at the end of the day it's not going to match it's not going to be enough only God can satisfy us I mean the genics eat and a conspiration but anyway this is my God the first time we saw it to the DJ makes we're like hold on I was so scared releasing that video it took a while I kept asking my husband I'm like hey should we should we do I look silly don't look but I love music I wait by the way I'm half-Costerian half-Jaluo yeah I have to read them somewhere up with Danny but this is my God is a fun fun video to do and yeah I guess the motivation behind it come out from my shell the motivation behind it is just to say there are things in our lives that we go through that and here we're just like hey you're new Mongo too yeah it is just to say that anyway this is my God there's no way I'd have survived this thing if it wasn't for God so it's a testimony but the same time I look at it as a declaration of faith moving forward to say I don't know what it is that is happening and I don't know how this situation is going to work out but who has never failed me and I can trust him eternally so whatever challenges even this corona you know God is not asleep he does not sleep or slumber he is awake even these locusts he will deal with them and we will testify that this is our God okay so encourage guys encourage guys you know there we have ladies who want to venture into music yeah yeah and I couldn't believe they are hurdles they are challenge they just want to give up but this is an opportunity for you to encourage them yes on camera for okay yeah again I'll just repeat the message that your motive is so important in life and if God has given you that desire the other thing to learn is just to trust in his timing and to wait on him to bring it into fruition so many times we get impatient and that's when we start doing things by our own might and by our own strength and that's how we mess everything up so trust in God trust in his timing and as you wait be actively waiting that means you're seeking him okay so present the desires of your heart to him but his word tells us in Matthew seek he first the kingdom of God and all of these other things shall be given unto you so we'd be lying to ourselves if we said that we're seeking you know all these other things fame marriage because that's a thing nowadays to say marriage but God is nowhere in that picture we'd be lying to ourselves and most of all we don't want to be the ones to disappoint him either so you know keep on keep the faith keep trusting him and above all just surrender that desire to him because at the end of the day only he will satisfy okay thank you now how can people get your music yes but from youtube other avenues yeah yeah you can catch up with my music of course on youtube and then it's on all those digital platforms when you are my itunes what were itunes were coco sour you can get it on and if you want the albums you can also visit my website www.joysomondi.com and they could also follow me on social media at joy so mondi that's on facebook on instagram and twitter and of course youtube at joy so mondi yes thank you so much thank you for making time thank you guys for having me maybe uh before she leaves you know i uh when you talked about albums um i was tempted to ask and i will ask okay about uh should we expect some collabs from you because actually yeah so what should we expect from you maybe yeah that's true i think i've only done two collabs actually and they're both from my first album um spirit versus soul is very like yeah but yeah i would absolutely love to do more collabs in future it's something that i feel everyone should you know prayerfully consider so i'm not the third but you know i'm not that chick but um you know i feel it's very important to be on the same page with someone as far as these things that i'm saying the motive and what is the purpose of this song do you miss that he's on my drama but yeah sure yeah but um definitely that is in the works for 2020 so watch the space it's not going to ask you guys on social media with everything that is happening lately they played the false prophecies do you think this the end times what's your view on that i think it's absolutely the end times already um not just because of corona or the locus but just because even the way we live our lives i mean uh the bible talks very clearly about how in the last days men will be lovers of themselves instead of lovers of god and if you see it i mean we're so vain all over the place social media i make what you try to manga or to clear my picture if you're watching you know what i mean because you're all trying to attract attention to ourselves it's become about money it's become about fame about flossing so yeah for sure in the end time so people need to get themselves ready yeah yeah but you know what the the thing about the end times is it's not about doom and gloom there's this beautiful story of hope for those who know jesus christ so we have an eternal glory to look forward to we have eternal life to look forward to because one day this king of ours is coming to carry us away to live with him in this beautiful paradise of heaven so i'm excited anyway we're just about to dance oh okay this is my god for the very first time dropping your own jessie's show and if you're about to dance the genics will be joining us