 Nya man, nya man, nya man, na kucheki maze Nya haje Aa, baria Mi ni kufiti jwa baria skuningi Nya ni kufiti maze, shami no no na sanitize jwo Hei maze, na sanitize jwa pole pole Nya man, ina fahibu, ina fahibu Bata maze karibu sana maze to ina yad Sancti jwo Nya man, nana jwa maze unge kwa na sisi hapa bata umentedia naware COVID kignewahikia mé fa nyamambu. Nya na lagu na Nick da Nya maze nya ni Hoffa Reza nityu Shamir is a music producer. Shamir is a songwriter. I'm a mentor as well. I've worked with a lot of artists. Let's just say I'm a trying man. One who's trying also on doing his best for community. So, for those who didn't know Shamir is an artist I'm going to introduce, but he's a KE artist. And maybe Shamir, because I know kiyoko game before ones kuli kwa naginambol kuna jita. What took the turn bakoka jika kosa kwa Shamir? Maybe what took the turn bakoka kaza kujita Shamir? Well, stage nimi yungu ya firstil kwa gasinga yaks. Ukuhom pali aniniko homesa izika bete. Kilamdona niita gasinga. So basically yo siga ilkume, ima stick for a long time. So I was in a long term contract. I was signed to a label called Happy Management. And we had a disagreement over my contract. Basically my manager was handing over my music. My follow-up songs zili nilikwani release after on fire. So we had a dispute and I basically got out of the contract angry and I didn't want to work with them anymore. So I had to sit out the remand of my contract, which was around four years. So I couldn't release any music for four years. So when I came back, I changed my name from Sina X to Shamir. And I started building up once again from grandpa records. So basically that's how I changed my name. And maybe Shamir, because I know at the moment you can tune Piyasana, I dropped my ZJUZI too. Maybe how did that happen? Because you are a legend, a piano legend. Maybe how did that work? Bakam kapatana, bakam kengia studio, muka mua mua ribuyosong vidno ma sana. So we were tuned on fire. How did that happen? Well, Wairi is a very good friend of mine. I've been working with him for a couple of years on end of Nile. Nile atu kwa hi, atu kwa hi pata time kwa ya kufanya witu pamoja. But over the years I've been sharing projects with him and he gives me his take on those projects. So he came to me and said, kujo kama kitu ita wakama ita wak, I always send it to him, malafono nipatia feedback. So he came to me and gave me feedback, action man. Aka skiza, aka skiza kai like, aka ni ambia. He wants to be a part of the project and ya. And that's how it came about. So he came to me and beat, aka fanya vasia ake and then he basically catered for the video and then we just put it out. But we haven't released it on YouTube. At least, prota kubil, prota kubil isongs ki asi at least he was a kubro as a homegrown distribution company. So mainly that's why we didn't put it out on YouTube. But the song is out there, it's being played. Just to get you clear, mese ma, ayo goma mese ma, haiku kwa YouTube. Right? Atu jeka kwa YouTube. Iko kosa iti na itua isongs, isongs Africa. Ya. And basically, just a little bit about isongs. Isongs ni streaming platform ya, like for African artists. Okay, okay. Ya, but it's officially launched in Kenya. Ya. And we're basically trying to build something unique wasababu. Easy appzoteza kushtrim ziki, wasani wa pataki pesaya o direct kwa in pesa na jwa. So basically, it's a platform where wasani waneza like you can be streaming your music and then making your money directly without any person in the middle trying to trying to take away your heart and cash, you know? Ya, that's good. And that's good because we have something which is we are doing it from KE. So I believe Exactly. platform ya music. I heard that uki chkwangoma hapua iyo pesa ina ingya directly kwa fukoiako shamil. Ina ingya in pesa. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, that's good. So maybe wakosa ni wangi nambawa na come through. I think maybe nizambia ni niku siyanana platform mamba poneze kamziki zao. Maybe. I think the most important thing is tunafa kungalia yu tunafa kujingalia from ile perspective ya why do you want to do your music? Ya. No? Kusabu wasani wangi fanya music from different perspectives. What would have fanya music for different reasons? Staki kushtres out those reasons but niza se ma it's good to it's good to kukwana yu experience hati una fanya jobiaako and you work hard. I know how hard Kenyan artists work. Ya. Na nipoha sana nipoha sana as much as you're putting it in you're putting in that hard work you also need to see the fruits of that hard work. True, true to that. Because you're talking about hard work, Shamir, at the moment so you drop the tune with Waire should we anticipate maybe for maybe another collab or maybe an album which you're working on maybe labda kuna album sayi mahali umetwe kia chinia maaji? Well currently nikona nilkona ta haku release album yangu Ya. and sometime this year initua Mr. Maximum. Okay. Basad we are COVID we decided to take a different direction so currently um trying to figure we are trying to communicate with Waire to see how best you can put out a few um can put out a couple of songs and also try and incorporate ama collaborate with these other um Kenyan Kenyan based dragon dancehall artists. Okay. So it's a it's a it's a big project it's a big project I need target to Mimina Mimina Waire mainly we also want to work with a couple of other reggae and dancehall artists based in Kenya and also outside Kenya so it's an opportunity it's something that we want to grow but yeah. Yeah maybe a hint of maybe someone who you're working with maybe outside the country maybe a hint of Treza Kujio maybe what exactly we should anticipate someone outside the country currently I'm currently I'm working closely with Kenyan based a German Kenyan based artist called Treza okay we're building on we're building on something with Treza currently okay and um also there's another artist there's another artist in Switzerland is called Kostari so we're trying to we're basically we're trying to build roots you know we're trying to build some roots we're trying to build some roots here and there in Kenya the person that I'm working with closely is Becky Mudoni mostly mostly just that mostly just that I don't want to get into too many details we don't want to discuss it maybe but definitely if it comes out and we work on it you guys will be the first to have it true that, true that exclusive to in a yard exclusive sauna and maybe today we are talking about Shamil Kovilome to join lasimani ku ad kwa ii groupie to about kutokai inje kuna greener pastures wengia wa believe mazei within the country maybe one has a fight wulem tunataka maybe we can be a Mayut pale do you think going outside is the key to success or maybe you can just do it here I feel that that question has two answers okay kuna kuna chances kuna chances opportunity inje but I believe thinking from an african perspective with all the opportunity that's here with all the raw the raw energy, the raw ideas zile to konazo we have enough to be millionaires in Africa easier than being a millionaire outside the country because one our education system is not really accepted outside this country you know like for example doctor ibu ni anasomia apa atasomia odoktari apple for 6 years aizenda ku praktisi odoktari anywhere aizenda ku praktisi odoktari place kama sweden because you have to you have to be retrained again for you to work in for you to be able to work in that system so it's not necessarily like a good thing to get out of the country but I would say if you want to pursue education education education is okay one has to talk inje, usome inje na uru di ku praktisi odoktari education apa one has to practice you na za praktisi le kitu me somia me somia uko inje but kitu na za kwa mbia sa easy any kind of system ko ii dunia edu ikona demand za ke kuna jwa so utapata ii o demand ya ii o system ya ozungu ya man it's ni complicated kusabu kuna cases nyingi kuna racism you have to deal with racism as an afrika you have to deal with you have to deal with economic economic segregation you have to deal with how do you call it like that change of such change of status like ya ni lazima o work through so many layers of difficulty do fike kwa ii le stage do fike kwa ii stage do na taka ukiwa hako hako iitu afrika kuna advantages more because first of all starting a business here is cheaper and it's easier like building a network is cheaper and it's easier because you're with your own people kulele kulele and because you've talked about you've touched about COVID-19 which it's the new normal at the moment should we anticipate because a lot of artists are doing maybe virtual concerts so should we anticipate maybe for one from Shamil because kume baki wiki kada kabla muakai ishe so maybe to anticipate a virtual concert more jahivi Shamil maybe working on something I have a couple of virtual concerts zile mkwa invited to yeah there's one called karibian it's a karibian virtual concert I'm definitely going to share it with you it's basically almost every station in the Karibian almost every country in the Karibian in Europe and the Americas both North and South America apart from that's coming up from the 12th of December happening on the 12th of December apart from that nikona virtual concertilina happen next week in ito 47 million reasons so my set is going to air on the 28th of November that's the weekend that's the next week that's next week weekend bless I to that but I'm looking forward to doing a couple of my own virtual concerts but with Kenyan artists that's something we are trying to figure out and see the best way we can handle kibisa sana kibisa sana maybe because nona time I kona sisi Shamil ninge penda sana maybe what exactly can you tell the youth out there kwa sababuna jua Shamil you started from Samoa until right now another level maybe what can you tell the youth out there to kenda kumalizia Shamil kitu mene zambia unti yote muna nisiki yoko inje is that a kuna kitu ria isi you have to you have to start from Samoa na vijanaasiyo gope don't be afraid to don't be afraid to express yourself kwa sa impia usi follow sana don't follow hype sana don't follow trends too much kwa sabi trends zina kujana zina isya na sisi fukabaki kwa ni ninge penda just remember to be yourself remember to start build yourself from scratch na usi choke just keep going and keep believing in yourself make sure that you stay loyal to the process ya and never ever ever let anybody tell you that you cannot do it kabisa sana wise words from Shamil maze na kumbia never never let anyone tell you wa zifanya but Shamil maze kuna joko show before tumalize okua guest lazimo to pigie akapelayako kwa sababu atiunia kwa sayin ina cheza kila mahali ini action man miata kutucheze tu akapela mazokitwambia goodbye maze niaze alafupia sijuka motatuletia waire the next time uki kujo na kujo kutumna waire right? definitely definitely nitaongi anaye nitaongi anaye dat make sure dat make sure mikupi gear amikupi gear simu alafu unesa link up na so it's definitely a good idea lazima lazima kabisa sana so maze siju minango jetiyo kapela manze action man before to kuregiz maze aya aya aya so this is how this is it anata kajon rambo tu akufanya mambo uki letam chezo kakando tell me can you handle that atari kwenye lango kama demi solit any time you throw can you know I'm gonna catch an action man oh you know she want an action man action man she want an action man she want a man who is action pack anami say action man oh you know she want an action man action man she want an action man she want a man who is action pack lion yeah man that's that's shamir maze thank you shamir for having time to talk to us thank you maze for this moment piya imeni bambasana na naju piya mafansu wa tu wa inayad so labda takupata wa api tu kikafunga kwa social media zako ane zaku pata wa api shamir anyway ono ni pata kama shamir tideia shamir tideia that is shamir alafu t-a-d-e-i-y-a everywhere on Facebook on Twitter on Instagram and also don't forget to follow me on my YouTube page remember to subscribe remember to keep sharing the music remember to keep enjoying you know bigger blessai blessai shamir blessai mostai kabisa sana thanks maze for joining us shamir I really respect that na naju a COVID-19 pungo pungo kido gohivi na naju haita pungo ikona sisi but you'll be joining us live awziyo kwa sasa tuna solidize na tuna kii distance stay safe kwa eli kabisa blessai kabisa sana maze ya man thanks maze kwa janjana ono