 I'm Savina and today is the 9th of November. I've just had my EP launch at the 1-3 Lounge. It went amazing. I'm so grateful for the opportunity. So about myself, I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm 22 and I'm Kenyan. I mostly do pop, R&B, najari butrap, kiazi. I don't know if I'm doing well. Music has been my passion for a really long time. So I'm glad to get the chance to share it with everyone. Professionally about eight years ago. Eight years ago? Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, about eight years ago. Yeah, yeah, they are about, yeah. Hi Savina. Hi. Thank you. Maybe a youth friend for when I was a kid. Yeah. So I met Nikita in school. We were in the same school together. And she's really been a really big influence in my music. Because she's the one that's encouraged me from the beginning. She's a really good friend of mine. She told me if you don't record this music, now what's going to happen to it. So she introduced me to the producer I use. The first video I took she introduced me to the director. She's been such a great person, a great mentor to me. Yeah, so she's my really good friend. You guys look alike. I keep being told maybe we're sisters. I lost my parents. And it was. And how do you handle such because maybe when you walk into them, they told me, Nikita, you know they ask you for photo. Yeah, it's not happened to that extent yet. Just more. You guys look alike, yeah. It happens in Tasematua. I'm not. But I'm Savina, yeah. Savina, I must say you're really talented. Thank you. So far how's the industry? It's interesting. It has a lot of its challenges obviously. People underestimating you or not giving you respect because you're not known and all of that. But you just have to fight through them. Work with the people that believe in you. The people that want to grow you. The people that appreciate you. That help you grow. Mama Sita. It's in Davoku. So about Mama Sita. I wrote it maybe 4-5 years ago. In 2018. So it's 5 years, yeah. I was listening to beats on YouTube. Came up with the song before it just used to be me. But I used to want to have a peerapa there. Then maybe 2 years ago. 2 years ago is when I told him I really love to have Duboku on the song. And he was more than helpful. He helped me. And he joined and he's so humble and such a great guy. So yeah, we did the song. And then Nikita came in and helped me with the background vocals. So that's how we have the Mama Sita we have today. Yeah, it's fun. Mikiwa? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely more music. More singles. This whole time in Mekwani Kenyama I just been writing. So I have songs back to back that are coming after this project. And I'm just hoping to get into the live space and not more. That was my first time. It was so much fun. So I hope I can do it more and more. Yeah, that's the time. Anyone I can think of is Duboku. I don't have any others. I don't think so. But yeah, I'd love to work with so many artists. Kinoti, Butros. I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of those artists. See when that happens Ikai, it's not the end of the world. There's too many other artists. Like at this point we've worked too hard to be brought down by misogyna and stuff like that. So Ikai, it's not worth it. Not so far. And I'm also really lucky to have my family and my good friends around me all the time. As I've said, my family, my friends. Kina Nikita, I have a friend, Andre. He's been there for me all the time. So it's also not too easy to chazami because I have a lot of people backing me. In five years, hopefully I've collaborated with other African artists, other Kenyan artists performing. I hope to have collaborated with other African artists, other Kenyan artists, and to at least have a platform in the international space. Maybe a few tours here and there and just grow myself. If you wish international artists would you wish to work in future? My biggest dream is Drake, forever Drake. I'm such a huge fan, I know all this all. So yeah, yeah, Drake. Amen. I'd like to know, apart from music, are you in school? What are you currently doing? What would you currently enjoy? Yeah, yeah. So I'm in school. I'm doing computer science online. And I also run a few businesses. I have a cocktail business. I run a couple of Airbnb's. What else do I do with my time? I do, I keep myself quite busy. What else am I doing? I think that's it. And music, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I would like to know, what's the challenge of this music? I think what I've learnt is you can be your biggest enemy. So comparison being the killer of joy, you can really think you're not as good as everyone around you, you're not doing your best, you don't sound good. And that's the hardest thing I've had to overcome, believing in myself and saying no, I'm worth it and I'm supposed to be in this space. So yeah, just limiting yourself because you doubt yourself. That's my biggest challenge that I've been doing. And I've seen you close with the Kita and Dom. We've got some things we learn from those people. But of course there's something that keeps you together. Do we learn something from them? Yeah. Definitely humility, but not to the point where you're hiding yourself. You know, you can be humble and then you make yourself small in the room then people forget about you. They know how to be humble but no, don't forget where I am. You know my achievements, you know what I've done and you know what I can do. So that's what I'm learning. Holding yourself with high regard but still being very humble with all the talents you have. Yeah. Sorry? I don't know. I don't think so. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. No comment. All of the above. Do you have a celebrity crush? Do I have one? Oddly enough, it used to be in Dofuku. Then now we became friends here in Pekensha. I don't have one. I don't think so. Maybe. Maybe Boutros. I don't know. Yeah. Why then? I don't... Anakat, he looks fun. He's just always happy. That's all. I like laughing. Yes. Yes. I've been signed with Universal. We've been working together for I think a year now, a year and a half now. Yeah. We are. It's great. They're really supportive. They really do put in the work and they're doing what they can to grow me as an artist. I've gotten access to so many things I couldn't even have imagined at this stage. So I'm so grateful for them. Yeah. Having a lady in this industry it means a lot eventually, cabbage, samiyanas and how prepared are you? Because we know you're so strong and you've done a kujo personally, kenye ni mewa na? Yeah. So umeji panga aji Mikiya industry like no kututka mahali aza choka, trulia but now mutimating bantelima trulia. I think just continuing the same thing I've been doing as much as you see in this today I've been working on this if you for maybe two years now and there's so many times maybe the world wants me to give up or there's just challenges and I'm feeling stuck but I'm so hard headed like I can't I know where I want to be I know who I want to be and I just have to keep myself going so I just I wake up every morning and question myself but cry I also cry it helps me a lot Yeah. I have to cry though if I don't cry I'll die I say I cry a lot, yeah. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this because you're an artist we saw the other day so fast just happened and apparently it's the last show so this show I've come together Yeah. We've been in a second retreat here Yeah. How do you feel about that? It's so hard breaking but I think the best part about it is they're all growing as individual artists you know you see what BN is doing the people he's collaborating with Nachimano so it's so hard breaking to see the group we've grown to love you know breakup but the beautiful thing is they're all on their separate journeys I'm so excited for each of them I think they're all doing such a great job I had a chance to meet them and they're such really nice people Yeah. Your favorite? My favorite I think Savaro Savaro? Yeah. I have an idea they just have answers Yeah. Yeah. Okay. If you can tell us maybe on your site when I say I'm thinking haina kiasma it's pretty good when I work now if you keep in mind I don't understand Yeah. For me with my personal journey music is like it's like our house or a mortgage is a long-term investment you have to put in the time the years you want to see big numbers it's not going to come tomorrow people I think because of social media TikTok things like that you see someone going viral and they become rich tomorrow you expect that's what it is it's a long-term investment so for me it's just me kwaekana kwaekana goja kwauna in short not yet but yeah yeah and then and also out here people are living a fake life so you can't compare so na twengime they're pretending so yeah yeah you just just put in just it's a long-term investment yeah that's how I look at it What's this one different thing actually compared to others that you are sure about your journey that you are sure about the secret what are the secret on your side and you tell us this one different thing that you are sure about you have a secret everyone will do it but I'm joking I don't know I think I write a lot quite a lot I write music even if there's some advice Eric when I gave me you write but you even if it's bad it's good just write and you can too so I also write at a come not in the mood I sing every single day in the shower I know I need to do more I don't know what else I do but I just try to grow at my craft every day every single day yeah it was so it was so nice I'm so grateful I don't know how I'm speaking sayin it was so great and I just hope I get to share the same feeling with more and more people more and more fans I was so overwhelmed with all the support I've been getting yeah so my EP pardon me is going to be out tomorrow on all major streaming platforms you can find it on the links to all my social medias there's Instagram, Tiktok and Twitter all of them it's Savina that's S-A-V-I-N-A-H so you can find my handles I'll have a link there to all the music it'll be out tomorrow by 11 am thank you so much guys thank you for coming as well thank you