 Welcome back to the Ease Circuit. The only way to turn up here weekend, I'm Mike Itai. You can find me at Mika underscore Kenya on every social media platform. In the morning we were having a discussion about love and we were asking, does the new generation believe in true love? You can answer that question on the Y244 channel and the Ease Circuit were waiting for those answers. Our first interview is somewhere, someone all the way from TZD. What's your name? Kuzini? Kutoka Kusini. Kusini. Pardon my Swahili. But the name of Unique. Yes. Kujina na ito Unique. As Mike said here, Natoka Kusini, TZD, Mitoara, Mitoara to Summit. Yeah. Na shkuru kwangzani, shkuru moishmioho, nipachanska mahi. Yeah, and yeah. I like how TZD guys are cutious. I'm not saying Kenyans are not cutious, but like... Talk about yourself. I'm talking about myself now. Yeah. Thank you for coming to the Ease Circuit. Today, you've brought a new track, Kizomba, but before we get to that, I want to talk about your musical journey. All the way from TZD, ever since they called you the earphones guy and all that. Let's talk about your first track. When was it exactly when you started? Well, my first track was actually the beginning of my music. I started my music back in 2015 and I was doing freestyle rap kind of music. Badae kuja kutana na rainbow fly ni kutoka Finland slash Vietnam. Ambae ali kuja kuni inspire in a way. Kufanya mziki tofa utiki dog. Na pondipo idea ya unique Eliza Riva. Unique? Na takani lete mziki, lakini mziki tofa utiki abisa. Ambae ali kutoka ya tu seme. Basically, o takiki kuja rebu kufanya le Bongo Flavor ni automazer from Tanzanians and with all those devil and blood numbs, na how, what, what? Pa na se kumbasa takiki kufanya yo design ya music abisa lakini. Na takakuleta variety tu seme. Kwa yo tagusa Bongo Flavor, apa Kenya ni mesafiri, ni pata bati na suma Kenyata University Pali. Tuna pomba na punafanya degree ki dogo. So ni nivukuja Kenya piya, nika sumata ki zumba at least, una ina testia Kenya ki dogo. So as we go. Kuguna sample ki like it too. But to kiyungila about your name, your Aka, unique. You're sampling every genre and deal. Like any what makes them unique. Ni nini unongezia ya nini wewa wewa tu. Okay what makes my music unique from the rhythm, like I want to bring a different rhythm to the flow, to the lyrics, to the actual meaning of the song. So like na takakani lete mziki yamba of course ni me pata bati ya kusoma. So na angaliya na mziki wa Tanzania na angaliya na mziki wa Kenya na of course yata Tanzania piya utuna igesana na Nigeria. So na angaliya mziki yo yote. Ni wukuleta testia angulaki ni kukutumiya familiar test iliopo. Nili familiar test na isi kwa ni kama ina divit too much. Kabisa kabisa. Na vila wulikona ito earphones gand. Ni kama wuli sample ki like it even before you started in 2015. Ni na ni wulikona skiza most of the time. Okay most of the time kusama oku elia mba ni mmskili zani Diamond Platnams. Diamond Platnams. Nini shiwa kabisa. Is he the goal wendo na takakofikia na umpite? Ya, ya. Kusama oku e kwa East Africa site. Kwa East Africa site yendo na madma. Kwanini unadma ya Diamond. What about him? Is it his music or what exactly? Is his music more than his lifestyle more like so that you are actually a very simple guy otherwise. Kwanini me bidi usemi hadi lifestyle. Ni ni una dislike about what is portraying in his lifestyle. Okay, I like how he is living and how he is pushing his music, he is branding very well. But kwenye upanda itse me wa kema pensi ya ni. Kwa wa tukweli. Kema pensi zahidi na vitu kama iwo. Nami piya na fanya mziku kama pensi tani mbo hangi wa kwanza na apili zotanzo ma pensi. Laki ni siku apo tu. As if noticed kwenye mziku apili nili imba kidogo rapu iwo so na taku cian kanya na mna iyo. Na zuniki angale the differences between Tanzanian artists na Kenyan artists ni wile wana di beba na wile wana di patiana ko public. Ere kisuli. Wila wana jenyesha ko public. That's better. That's the main differences. Wile tuna sema lifestyle especially with regard to relationships. We've seen atawatu wali koko stabuli ake iyo wasafi records ake na revani na kina mbo so. We're more interested in who they are dating than their music even though their music is really good. Unona aze u teza ko bypass because I'm a nemandatory as a Tanzanian artist people have to dive into you. Find out everything about you who you're dating, who you're not. Iko sana by the way. Ni kwa mbo kisha kwa putahari artist. Wile nasima ni kiyo kiyo chajami sindi. What are you going to do next? Who are you leaving? Who are you doing this with? That's okay. Ni kwa mba kama saivit seme. Tuna fanyam zikin diyo. We're up coming. So we're collecting ideas. We're doing this, doing that. But in terms of branding kajari u kutengi nizangia flani mbo ni tofa uti kuriko zili so putahari. So if you could be so. Lakin ni pia Kenya siya ti took a shot of the controversies. So you can make your difference. Ni gani na kakwa harder. Between Kenya and Tanzania ni wapu nizu seme. This is where I want to set up shop. Ni kwa me apa. Nizu shikile iwi tafa dali katikati microphone. Kusiyana na zikiwangun na tamani sana kama unge uza zai di Kenya. Kwan ni Kenya? Yendo. Yono kwa sabu. Kriwa tu omtoara na shangasa na gawainu om tu ometi saliti. Yosa. Yosa. Ni pia kutengi ni pia kutengi ni pia kutengi ni pia kutengi. Pia kutengi ni pia kutengi ni pia kutengi ni pia kutengi. Kwa wakumu ziki na uza zai di? Ya. Ni menotisiko kitu. Seme o kwa yon. Ya. Na kuna Kuna a lot of African artists wo miko akit jaribu kudifu akissama. That's not the case. Sbchely after he hashtag play kei. Uliwa na iyo maneno. Mi na onan kwa mziki wana huza, en da putu, we do kwa anza kwa mziki wakoneza kwa huza zahidi wapi. Mi mi na imbako kuchanganyalu gambilza kwa ili na kengreza. So onakutakatika wandishwa wango already. Of course tanzani wana huza kwa huza, lakini. Ita huza zahidi kenya. Ita huza zahidi kenya. The fact that I got this exposure, to come to Nairobi na kwa ishia pa, ni kwa onan ni tumia na ni angalia mziki wana li padia pa na atatuki angalia konya chats, akina diamond, akina raivani, akina harmonize, akina jukes. Wote na onakama iniwezu na na saivikuna kolaboration kubuwa, intia kenya na tanzania. Kwa sabua menotis na wake gomba, apakatikati, kuna mziki mta muzaano, kwa zahidi join the two different tests. Na uko o tanzania wama, who you admire is diamond pladams. What about in Kenya? In Kenya, okay. In Kenya, I have a couple actually. Ni kuna kani graf oji, lasma ni mkubali. Oji lasma ni mkubali ya? Ya, ya, ya. Metambule kasa na uko? Wapi tizet. Tizet ni metambule kandio. Na ni mungi na? Aside from oji? Aside from oji, kuna masawuti na mkubali, na kujaju sana, kuna niya ma legend ringi na, kuna niya shinsuki, wakusa, south soul, of course. Kuna watu ingisa na mbo, na wangali ya uktoka wuku. Na piya kuna mziki mungi na mbo, piya ni fan, kuna wiki wangali ya ata, kuna bundox kia, kuna ethic. O chungulo family? O chungulo family, riko gang, wote, wote, wakua ya. Yo gengetun, kuna mtu mnuna, zataka kuhu wakuna ya, kwa yo gengetun? Kwa sababu ni kama the new wave of music saizi? Kwa wiki wangali yuku kenya ya. Na uza kupenda sana, kufanya kazi na, kama yiko zekana, na zina, o chungulo. O chungulo family. O chungulo family. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Kwa wiki wangali yuku ta z Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. Ya. So again, I feel like mimi naimba kiswa hili, aunaimba muziki ambauna, testia bugu flavor na Tanzania kidogo. Nikaja nika mix na muziki wakenya pa. Kagingitun, parle, parle, parle. Ya, tu noeza kutengineza ki tu flan, nya bachu ni tofa uti piya zahidi. Ya. Safika bisa, looking forward to that. Now, before we get to Kizomba, by unique, in just a few minutes, what's next for you? Who are you working with na, pieneza taka kujua zin, una planadze kupenetreti in marketia Kenya? Because it's not, you know, ningumu piya kashia wu. Yes, it's not music abisa, ningumu kumu, siyuki dogo ata ningumu. Siyuki dogo. Na ono watu ono pambana sana. Ya. Of course, actually, ikon yu muziki ni, kusimu kudu na piti ya challengingi sana, yu ni wakika, na from the point of view ambao ni me fiki yam damba una sema, siweziku ishi bila muziki, na siweziku endambere bila muziki. So, I have to let, not even let, but I have to make people see what I've got in this art. So, na shkursa na kwanza kwa director wangu yu kupare da Tevin Fad. And I'm going to push, at least, ni wakaja wu Kenyan do nipata chance ya kwanza kushuti video. So, before ni wakata na fanya audio ni wakata z. So, niza ni ka sema gomba sofa ni pukunyele point ambao. I'm looking forward to the future. That's number one. And who am I going to work with or what's my next project? I've got a couple in store actually, some hot hot hot stuff. Cholaize, cholaize. Koni umbani. Ya, amla, amla. Yote, ni kuna vi tutu vi agutosha wiko sto ambao ni moto moto. Na tamani sana hot weski e. Lakin ni of course, as I said, kuna challenging ki sana na piti ya. So, like right now, I'm also doing... Ona plana ziko bypass, use the challenges. Ndo ziko penetrate na this market ya kenya? Okay, that's where now branding comes in. Konam tu mwenye na kusahide kunnaveget? Ya, a couple, but just close family friends and stuff. No one like professional on that side of like branding and marketing. Kwa yo on domana ni na kujesahivi ya pa nitafti opportunitimbiritatu. Sa wabu full sa zipo. Lakin ni last mawa ni kanya kwanza. Kwanafanya mziki ya na release audios. Lakin ni audios je sayivi kanya, sayivi na nga na skidiza audio kwanza. Kabla jyoku onam tu mwenye ya. Ya, so na kuta last mawa kwanza odio nyeshe. Ndo kutambu e kwanza. Ya, ya. Anaske aki sueli angusia tini mbaia bili. Relax. So ni kukuwa. Relax. Kikukuwa saan na. Uko saa, uko saa. Ya. Saafi kabisa. Now there's a question we were asking as someone who writes love songs. Ata kakwangia manana kima pain ziki dogo. Ongia, ongia, ongia. We were asking a question in the morning. Do you believe in true love? Do I believe in true love? Yes, I would say do believe in true love. Because I was truly in love with someone. Once. Once. What happened? Distance, I would say, you know. Distance. Number one killer of relationships. Yeah, not okay as well. Distance. No masana. No masana. Tama jabu. Uka wone kani. You're fired. Ya menda deeper. Ya menda deeper. Nowadays relationships are like jobs. If you're not around. No call, no show. You're fired. Time kadiako sipoi stamp on a daily basis. You're fired. Ya. Saafi kabisa. Kizomba iko apa. We're about to premier it by unique from TZ. Mtuwara village. Mtuwara to summit, yes. Ya. Uko na wa kikakuna wa tuwa na yangaliya wa tatoa po. Ya. Last month ita je. Uko ndo nyumbani na. Last month u brand nyumbani kwa po. Ya. Ibuto leze kizomba what it's about. Okay. So kizomba itsef idea ikuja kama nilkua na takabada go din love. The second idea was dance. Kus go din love was all about love. About like true love. Kama tuwa ngelea na kusiana na. Ya mapeinze uku eliko. Mapeinze uku eliko. Ya. So you do believe in truth. I do believe in truth. Ya. That's for sure. Saafi kabisa. We are going to premiere that in just a minute, but before that.