 What's up, everybody? Welcome to SPM Buzz. My good name is Ms. Kethingi. Thank you so much for joining us on Buzz with stars. And my stuff for today is one you would love to hear her story. But before I introduce her, guys, make sure you subscribe to SPM Buzz because we are heading to 200k subscribers. And when you bless us with that subscription, to talk to me for a year, Sana. Subscribed? Thank you so much. Now, the lady I am hanging out with today is a gospel artist. She is a DJ. She is a mentor. You know, she gets to inspire the young women out there. And this is the one and only DJ, Kez. Hi, Kez. Hi, Miss Kethingi. How are you? Very good. Do you look amazing? Hey, I always say, I mean, today is on a Tuesday, but thank you. We marched so-and-so, okay? Oh, look at that. We got the memo. How are you feeling? My dear, I'm so happy. I'm so excited. For the first time, thank you for the invite. I'm so happy. I'm so excited. We can't wait to have a conversation with you and just get to know about your new album or new song. New song, Tenda. Tell us about that. Where was the inspiration? Where did it come from? You know, on Tenda. I was reading Ephesians 3 Ephesians, the whole book, really. It was my book of the month. And when I was reading it, I got to verse 20 where it says that God can do exceedingly, abundantly more than we could ever imagine. I was like, hey, so he let me know. Imagining again is a funny. God can do exceedingly more than that. And so I sat and I'm, I'm marinated on that verse for a while. And I was like, you know what, God, the ones that I want you to do for me, I'm cool with it. But I want you now to do the ones that you want to do with me for me, because I know those are going to be exceedingly abundant and what I think. Yes. So the song Tenda is a mixture of a few verses in the Bible. It says, um Nice. I love that. Where are we finding the song, by the way, on all music platforms, YouTube, boomplay, TikTok, I mean, even TikTok and social media. Yes. But all music platforms, iTunes, Apple music, all of them Spotify, you can get my music on there. Yeah. Now let me ask you because we call you DJ cares. Yes. But we are speaking about music now. Yes. What did you start to do before? Is it, is it, you know, singing or was it DJing? It was actually DJing. Well, it was singing when I was a child. Not professionally. I have even done a song with my grandmother in the recent year and she's 85. And so I started into music from a young age, but professionally I started as a DJ. I did secular DJing for five years because before I got born again, and I transitioned now to gospel music, DJing, then singing. Oh, yes. Okay. I mean, it's all under art. So if you love music and you know, if you're a DJ, you love music, so you can as well as sing. Give us an acapella of the new song. Beautiful voice, beautiful song. Now guys, you need to make sure you catch DJ cares new song tender. Now let's talk about, you know, the other day you shared a picture of you quite young with, you know, another, it was a photo, photo grid of you right now. And you're very young. Tell us about that young girl who was in a school uniform. How was she like? How did she grow up? I was born and raised in a very small town in El Gio Marraquet. That is in the Rift Valley. And in that small little town, that is where my gift of singing and my gift of because that specific picture, President Mui had come to El Gio Marraquet. The last election just before 2002, and we, me and my class of little, little young ones, we went to sing for him. And so I was leading. I had a microphone in another picture. I had a microphone right in front of me because I was the lead in that whole small choir from my class. And I was, it was, it was amazing because everybody afterwards kept saying, you little come, that's how that picture was taken. So that community going forward from that young age encouraged me. I would sing in all public holidays. I would sing in weddings. I would sing in funerals. I would sing in anything they would ask, where is that little girl can she come and sing for us. And sometimes even when I was not expecting them. So I am very, very grateful. I see that transformation from when I was that little girl in that little school uniform to where God has gotten me now. The new song that we just did, I was wearing a uniform as well. And I was like, from that little school, the school of life has, God has been gracious all the way, all the way. And for that, I am thankful. I'm thankful, Capista. Okay. Now look at you now. You know, it started from, you know, that particular time. And now look at you. Good stuff. Now, because, you know, I, I knew you grew up in church and you are actually an SDA. And then I know come on. You know, there's an unfortunate incident that happened in your life a while back whereby, you know, you that resulted to you getting pregnant. And then something happened in church. Yeah. Tell us about that. Oh, man, it's, it's so unfortunate. But when I was 18, as you said, it was such an unfortunate encounter, the whole of it. But I had, I got assaulted. Let me call it rape. I got raped and I got pregnant at 17 years old. I had my baby at 18 years old. I was scared because as a young girl who has grown up in the church, you are told that the one thing that you should not do is get pregnant outside of marriage. So I never told anybody that I was one raped or two pregnant. And when the church finally found out that I was pregnant and I was five months old, pregnant, I was excommunicated from the church. So I was not allowed to enter the church. I, being the girl, as I said, who had grown up singing in literally every, me mean only one Oshanga Kanisa every Friday evening before Sabbath in the morning, seeing the drastic way that they were now handling this and nobody saying, hey, can, can, what happened? Nobody thought to say, Hey, can you maybe explain maybe to understand it? Before we take that action of excommunicating me from the one place that I thought I could find solace, it was terrible. I, at one point, I actually left home, went to live with my sister in the Lord for a while because the stress was literally killing me. And I'll, for a while there, my mom was even afraid that I was going to lose the baby. Yeah. But it was a learning experience because now I insist. I, I, the minute I hear of something like that happen, I speak immediately because that is not how we are supposed to do it. When people are having a hard time, that is our time as Christians, as the church, as people who know God to behave as Christ would have, which is not excommunication for sure. Yeah. Now maybe if I could ask, was it someone that was known to you maybe from church and how did actually that moment feel for you? Because you know, the church is where we are supposed to get refuge. But as young as you were at the time, tell us how it really affected you, especially your mental health at that very young age. You know, the, the person who actually did this was my then new boyfriend. It was actually my first boyfriend. And he dragged me and I woke up the next morning with no recollection of what had happened the night before and one month later. So I tried having that conversation of what happened, what happened. I think in the, in my mind, I just knew what happened. I just wanted to hear it from him. But the fact that first voice was my boyfriend in a cool limit. Why go the extra mile of putting him in my, in my soda, you know? Yeah. Anyway, so that happened for me, despite the fact that I was as a child myself, the minute I realized that I was pregnant, I knew it's like God was doing just miraculous things in my, in my whole head, like in my, in my life, in my, in my story, because immediately I thought to myself, how am I going to start looking for this baby? When I found out I was pregnant and I told him about it, he said, I don't want anything to do with it. Yeah. So immediately I knew I was by myself. So I started there. My mother was the one person who stuck with me through it. Or as I told you, the church did not, which was cool, right? But I feel like it was at that moment that was the opportune time to hold on to this girl who had been doing everything, like womanage you out my whole life. This was a time the church would have picked up the slack, you know? I guess maybe I'm biased because it was me, but if it was somebody else, I would have done the very same thing. Yes. Mentally, it was not easy. As I said, I was a child, having a child. My friends, their parents had told them they don't want to be seen associated with me all of a sudden. So all my friends, nobody was talking to me. Literally, if we were working in town, my mom would walk right in front of me, like right here, so that people would not stare. So the people would not see that it was me who was coming, you're right? And it was crazy. But I'm sure I'm hardy now. I don't think there's anything that would scare me now. Yeah. Well, Ebu talked to someone who is probably in the same situation as you were that time. Encourage them. Yeah. Allow me to say that if you have not gotten yourself in this situation where you're young and you're pregnant, just take your time. There is no rush to you because just the other week when I was in Kabyanga University, a lady told me that a lot of students are feeling the pressure to get pregnant early so that once they go into life, they don't have the pressure of mothering or giving birth and whatever. Take your time. The second thing is, if you have already found yourself young and pregnant, it's time now for you to just stick to God. It's going to be hard. It's going to be hard for a minute. Just work, concentrate on building yourself. Even if it means having to go home back to your parents, back to your your sisters or whatever the case, just go back to the basics of it and just allow yourself to go through this process. Itaisha. After a while, you look at it and you think about it. You will see it as the one thing that has completely transformed your life. If you are a grown-up, if you are a person who is at an advantage position and you can help someone who is young and pregnant, mothers in the world, anywhere in Kenya, make a difference for them. Accept and courage. If you have something that you can give them, come any pompous, come any food, come any advice, even you don't have to do much. Just give that. You don't know how much these people needed at that point in their lives. You can change their lives. A lot of them are going through a hard time. But sometimes if you can use me as your testimony, you don't know what God is doing through it. I hope you are encouraged. Just in case, you know, you're going through a hard time for sure. Now, Kaz, despite all these things that you went through, you know, the church turned their back on you, you still went ahead and built a church worth millions. Tell us about that. That wasn't me. It's not me. It was just God. And the way also he did it, I think it was very coincidental. No, it was funny. He was trying to prove a point. God was. Because it was the same church that's communicated to me that we went back and built. Yes. So as I said, in 2020, now when I was getting born again, an opportunity had presented myself to use my talent and my art for the glory of God, which is now de-jaying online. And people started sending in tips from zero shillings to 120,000 to 4 million to 10 million. And I thought to myself, what's the one thing that I would want to do? Since I was a kid, I always said, I hate the fact that we have worshiped under a tree and we're worshiping on this Mabati structure. If God ever blesses me one day in future, I'm going to build this church. And the fact that I was communicated didn't change that dream for me. Yeah. So when the opportunity presented itself, I went back to the original dream and we built the 10 million church that stands right now in the same church that excommunicated me. Guys, talk of grace because this is a lot of grace. And you know, just a lot of what? A lot of grace. A lot of grace. How was their reception, you know, when now you got born again and now you want to build them a church? Did the same officials who excommunicated you, were they still there? And what was their reaction? Right there. They were right there. And first of all, they didn't believe that I was going to come back and build the church. And then when we started building the church, they were not so sure. I think the day we handed over the church is when people actually believed it. Even when the structures stood there, the day we handed it over and they let's equal to earlier meaning. Because it was, it's crazy. You tell me, even you look at it. It's crazy, right? Yeah. So at your time, I said, in every situation, I ask myself, what would Jesus do? And that is exactly what Jesus would have done. So I did that. Hey, may you receive all the blessings that you pour to the rest of the world? Because as we wind up now, the same, same church, something else happened. Just a few. Because you say you are part of an SDM and there's a lady that was hosting an event. And someone came through that, you know, an entertainer who was a cross dresser. And this person was actually excommunicated from church. It didn't sit so well with you. Why is that? No, no, no, no, no, no. Why are we taking the... For the first time, those things are the, those opportunities But in our human nature, we fail so bad. This lady did an event, was the mistake that she did. But to be banned from church because of that. And this is how, one, she is in ministry and two, how she makes her living. That does not sit well with me. And this time it's not me. It still doesn't sit well with me. I feel like, this is my opinion, we can have different ones on this one. They are doctrines, as people say, we, we, especially since the SDM, when we have doctrines and when we come to church, we are not allowed to go to church. But I say this all the time. When we have an opportunity to extend grace, what are doctrines? Let's use that moment, correct, encourage. Let's use that moment to even, even warn us. Before, we say, eh, and write it on a memo that has threaded in the whole country. Where is this girl going to sing for the rest of her life? Because you have, this thing has printed all over Kenya. But then again, that's just me. I'm just a DJ, right? That's what people will say. Eh, lucky me, Jesus even told me not to go to church. So let's not consider ourselves too righteous to even correct, to even allow people to make mistakes and pick them up. There you go. DJ Keza said it. Quick for your questions. Tano. Zamwisho to Kimaliza. Number one, what is that one thing you appreciate the most about your mom? Her support. She's my biggest fan. All right. Number two, what is that one trait that you appreciate the most about a friend? Loyalty. One thing that you don't appreciate the most about a friend? This loyalty, man. It's just, it's just, yeah. One Kenyan artist, whether secular or gospel, that you think they are so underrated? Ooh, underrated. I've been listening recently to an artist called, an album by an artist called Manolo. I think they should give him a chance. He had, that album is wonderful. Okay. Yes. One thing that is annoying you the most in this country right now? The best destination that you've been and why? Haven't gone out of the country yet. I'm going this year, but Watamu in Malindi is perfect. All right, DJ Kez. Please make sure you catch DJ Kez's new song. Make sure you catch her vibe as well as you can see. She's full of vibes. She's full of inspiration. Thank you so much for coming through to Buzz. It's Taz to Meshkuru Sanna. That's not your Sanna music video. Thank you, SVM Buzz. Thank you. Appreciate it. 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