 Unipasti students should wear uniforms, I'm like na... Are you easy? But that's what they are proposing? No, we mean... Well, have you been to a petrol station? Like the few of us who feel at a petrol station? Yes, so have you seen those petrol attendants? So you want people to look like attendants at the university? Look, you had this idea of wearing a tie was so bad or socks or something. I'm not saying it's bad, wearing a tie makes you, you know, proper, you look like you're well put together. Then what's with the uniform? But as a uniform... Guys, you know what, I want to even... Mike, you're not even in campus. Here's the thing, let us know what you think about that situation on the Y254 channel or the e-Cycle. Now, so look at this pata. Thank you for always watching. I think I always see him every Saturday. So look at this pata. Thank you for watching the e-Cycle. He's saying, loving the show, watching from Kisumu, Big up in Kisumu. Michu B. John K. E. And as I'm killing the vibe here, Mombasa 001. Tuna kuja. I can't read exactly what he's saying there. In Nashotandile, too much. Too much. Bekoiko koisan. Sozok, ksaksa. Sema. Lakin ya, so in case you didn't know, you could figure, I still don't know. Can you please type that again? Samul Kirika Mwangena. So Makirika Samul from Nevasha Nichezengoma ya Wakadinali. Wakadinali. Thank you for that one. That's what I mean, Mekabi looks kia Wakadinali. So look at this pata again. So that's impossible. How can a comrade be the same as a high schooler? Ya, takiyo maneno. And he does not propose that. Thank you so much. Abispata. Ya, ya, libuli fomuwan. Apana. Onaja, the thing is, umse, your own point. Your own point. Thank you, Buda. Ernest, umsani. Ernest, umsani. I'm watching from Machakos. DJ Lil Russian. I could do two sana. I love it. Shukar. Nasi hati ya hanzo koringa o VP. So, play for me. Read your love. And do that. Me toka kuchiza too saizi. About you need to wear uniform. Haiwazi make. Ah. What do you have to say? Why are the boy child siding with me? Why are you people siding with me? Me always tell you, the boy child is a smart child. At our boutique. At our boutique. The boy child is a smart child. Millicent Guy Brown. I'm watching from MKU Thika. DJ Hisomix zime. Where's Mbaya? Boom, I love you guys. Mimi nime. Maliza campus, whatever they do. Nishida yao. Sasa. At least one person. Whatever they do Nishida yao. Okay, I don't know what to say to that. Jay Williams zime, some hell no. How does CS expect? Okay, it's allegedly. Expect Kenyan students to put uniforms from 16. Using it for four system. Nabila kuna wasewa meru dia dar o mara mob. Bwana. Mwa chao ma. Ikin na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. Meru diaiafom, 1fom, 2fom, 3fom, 4fom. Iakiru diaiafom send exploration, na a fewa E. bun IVIZE. Deni yung pag becoming uniform again terreze yao eni kwa trafficking, bana nans dokona sa mga j yung uniform ni uawe rewa. Iyapewe. matatangus maili, uh, atawatu bhai, atu bhai, uh, saafi kaby, sa alafu DJ aa chikumlega yi mwaka Uhu Uwe chikumlega yi mwaka Uwe angaliyango mame Uwe angaliyango mame, request please play ma feelings by Lamas Spann listen ma feelings ya ni claim ma feelings achya ma feelings claim o ja kulenga gautshela na kwaambiaa zi, utiki e mo yungiwa kwa dia mo mo yungiwa, kano, tafa natali he um, sukiza ni vizuri Samson Adoyan, please play for me my feelings. Pia ya rata kwa ma feelings? Na ni ni na feelings le. Ma feelings is for me, ya ma ni vile kuna barili ni. So ma na feel. Muna feeling ya. Kiplagat Jafan, Chemlagat, E-N-G-A-C-E-R-O. Ya ni Gina. Anasa ma from A-C-E-R-O Village, Kabisyanga Ward, Nandi County Watching Live, Kamakawa. Frederik Ayo, so ma it's mad lakini yu story. Ayo ni from Nitrikisana. Nitrikisana, Nitrikisana. You guys continue giving us your feedback on Y-2-5-4 tunnel and the E-Circuit. Our first guest is not stranger to the E-Circuit scene. Oh to Y-2-5-4. Welcome. She goes by the name of Waienke. Hello. Karibu San, Y-2-5-4. Asante, asante. Kariaiako, Ilianza. Did you start with the, because now you're a high fashion model, you're an actress and you're a singer. Which one came first? Was it the modeling first? Kariawaz or how I did? Kariawaz. Music came first. Music came first? Ya. I started singing when I was very, very young and my first performance was in a church musical. How old were you? I was 7 years old. 7 years old. I played Mary in a Christmas musical. You played Mary? Yes. So it was both acting and music. It was a drama musical for the church. And ever since I've been in choirs, in my primary and secondary school years, when I got to campus, I joined Helem Tawali's band Afrizo. That's when I started earning from music. So now we can say that music was my first career. That was your first gig? Yes, because I was still in campus then. But you still had passion for fashion? Ya, I had passion for fashion, but I never knew I could model. You see, I like to experiment with style. I like dressing people up. I like fashion, but I never thought of myself as a model. You never thought of yourself as a model? Yes, it was an accident. There was a time in Nairobi University, we had a strike and I got bored, so I called one of my high school directors. I was in drama and I asked, is there anything I can act? Then he sent me a location, there's a casting call here. I didn't know it was casting for models or acting. So me, I went there as an actress. Then I saw they were telling me to walk, they were taking my measurements, then they told me, oh, you're in, we're going to train you. Then I was like, who says not to free training? That's how I started modeling. By accident? It was by accident. But then again, he went so far with it because he became a runner-up for Miss Universe Kenya? That's kind of surprising. I think modeling kind of chose me. Because when I started doing it, it was just for fun. I'm getting free training from Tony Chira and every month we have a show, we have a fashion weekend every month and it gives me some 5000. That's extra pocket money that I wasn't planning to get. That my mom doesn't even know I have. So it started like that. But then I started getting serious calls, serious requests and that's when I put my mind to it. When you started taking it seriously? Yes. Until you reached the top? So I started joining competitions, mistuarism now. Now I feel I can. So I went for mistuarism. I went for Miss Universe, these competitions. The first was mistuarism and I was first runner-up No. 2. I was shocked. So I was like, ah, let me try another one. I went for Miss Universe and Sam. And then I was No. 2 again. Can I ask you something? What was the feeling, the emotion that you felt, especially with that big title Miss Universe, Kenya first runner-up, knowing that you didn't even imagine doing it? First it's kind of empowering. It showed me that there's so much I can do that I didn't know I can do. So it gives me that spirit of exploring. Now I'm ready to explore a lot more because if I didn't try... Still in the modelling industry or other sectors? No, like in every sector of my life, including my campus life, like even in school, I came to believe that there's nothing I can't do. Everything was achievable? Like everything is achievable. That's first. Then secondly, it's kind of a burden because now people look up to you, they expect you to be... A certain type of wage. Like you're supposed to be a model, a role model, you're supposed to be this and that and this and you're not your own person, your people's person. You represent people. So you can't just go with your feelings, go with your moods. You don't post whatever you feel in social media. Things like that. So the pressure? You don't have that kind of freedom to just explore yourself and be yourself free spirit the way you used to. People should not meet you in a wrong corner, wrong mood, things like that. That pressure? Was it too much for you? No, I kind of got used to it because I'm a first born and my parents are very strict. So I'm kind of used to the pressure but it gets to a point where people judge you thinking they know you but they don't. And you even meet people in social media because maybe you're friends for maybe one month, two months, one year and they think they know you. They think they know your weaknesses and it's easy for you to be misunderstood. Is it to be misunderstood? Yes. Okay, now before we get into the music part I want to generalize it because you are one and the same, the full package, the model, the actress, the singer. Now the pressure and people misunderstanding you and judging you. Of course it comes since it's an online community these days it comes with some negativity at the same time. A lot of negative energy. A lot, a lot. Because you cease to be a person. When people talk to you on social media they don't realize you're someone's daughter, you're someone's sister, you're someone's girlfriend or someone's future wife. They see you as a poster. You understand? So whatever they throw at you they believe you're like a rock. It doesn't affect anyone else. They believe it doesn't affect... Yeah, exactly. I go to other artists' social media pages the way they will talk to her it's like she's not a person. She doesn't have feelings. These things are not supposed to get to her. You understand? So that's the kind of thing that happened to me and it happened too fast. I don't think I was so prepared because in a span of one year I was a public figure all of a sudden. What I was doing, I was in campus studying BBIT but I was doing these other things as hobbies like things that I can use to release stress when I'm stressed out in school, you understand? But it got too fast like all of a sudden I miss something, all of a sudden people know me all of a sudden my music is playing somewhere all of a sudden people want to know who are you and if they can't understand you they want to make themselves understand you. So it came too fast. It came too fast. But you were able to finally cope with it? Finally. Yes, but it's not easy especially if you don't have a manager it's not easy. Yes, because now you have to deal with everything yourself. A manager in terms of managing your social media someone who manages your career someone who actually helps you get grounded it's not even about social media alone someone you can talk to about some of this negativity you meet someone who can help you get grounded don't worry about what they say here and here and here we're going to do this to counter or things like that or someone who can stand up for you and call we need this and this and this and this so that people don't feel like we can use her. You understand? Yes. Now in terms of music you have an album out why you in case are titled how's it been since you released the album? How's the reception? The few people who've had it the few people who've had it liked it but it didn't get a lot of media attention it didn't get in fact I'm sure most of you don't even know song number three because by the time I was releasing the album the pressure got so much that I got sick I just left it That's why you disappeared from last year? I didn't even want to push it, yes I disappeared I got sick I was diagnosed by depression and it was because of all this negativity I'm taking in So I have an album out I have people who act like my friends you call them I need help pushing this I need an interview I need this, I need this and what they can say is they want to objectify you or you're a girl, you're pretty Be my wife and be exactly be my girl and I'll make you a star be my girl and I'll buy you a car So every time you approach someone you're met with objectification then when you go to social media the people who don't understand you they also want to act like they do so it got too much How did you get through that? because now you're back you're looking wow, you're looking good I don't even know how it's kind of surprising Funny thing is when you're getting into depression you don't know it until it's kind of now you start realizing this and this and this has changed the people around me are complaining about this and this you understand you don't really know that by the day I'm getting into depression it takes time and when you're getting out you don't even know it because it's not a one time process it comes with a lot of mind change how you look at things how you receive things the kind of things you want to receive but I can say I think my mother's prayers helped a lot got you through it Yes, because I know a lot of people who've gone through depression and when they came out their life was never the same I went through depression without ever touching alcohol without touching drugs without experimenting with I don't know different men like I basically I didn't try any of those vices You feel like you've grown from that experience Yes So how will you shape your career now because now I know you have something lined up for us in 2019 We are about to play Zama Bayewa yinke but I know you have something planned for us What I decided first not to get that much pressure for myself I'm leaving out everyone's expectations I'm not going to work by your expectations someone else's expectation I'm going to work by my own role and my own speed I want to achieve this and this and this timeline So I don't care if you want me to achieve it first or if you're going to derail me so that I can be someone you understand So I want to take matters into my own hands I'm working with a lot of people who are positive I have trainers who are helping me shape my career because even when I started my career I didn't really get training at you music classes dance classes now I don't have a manager yet but then I'm not really rushing to get one because now that comes with another kind of pressure and I might end up making a mistake or choosing the wrong one So I want to take time with that but meanwhile I have a lot coming up I have new music I have dance videos I have modeling videos and my YouTube channel is going to be your TV station Nice and you're going to premiere everything here on the E-Circuit, right? Definitely This is where I came first Actually this is my first interview after after I now got well and we appreciate you reaching nothing but the best Of course you're a hard worker we know everything is going to turn out well Thank you so much for coming through We're about to play Zama by Wajinke Where can we find the album for the people who want to purchase it and where can we find you online? The album is everywhere albums are I don't understand why people say Kenyan music is not on iTunes No, it is but you just don't know my name So if you go to iTunes if you go to Spotify if any music store out there search for Wajinke you'll get me everywhere YouTube Social media Wajinke That's the name I use That's the name I use everywhere If you Google Wajinke it will bring all those sites All those links to the music Thank you so much for coming through