 Good morning, it is still as we are still with you because to now I like and we're still bringing you your weekend on a weekday. It's Friday, my favorite day of the week which I think flies by way too fast but that's fine at least it comes in this hour. At 5-5 on Facebook, Y-2-5-4 channel on Twitter, Y-5-4 on the scroll channel on the ground. Hashtag, send your birthday! Mine to Val and of course the DJ giving us I don't know if it's good vibes or problematic good vibes. But cotton kumbya termini mnda Kuhuhuhuhu, kijashok, kido ahaha! Doni siya rebu bada, baddae. Ehe mesta God Vibes please introduce yourself, ons again to the people, R-A-J-O-S-H-E-D-I-M Raji the DJ, Palai Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, wa-pii-mye ne? Mdundo? Mdundo na mix cloud piya, mdundo na mix e sapo a Raji the DJ, tani pata! O-you? Tha wanu the head! Y-ye ye ye! Bending your side more, I don't know what the problem is, but it's a conversation that sounds weird. Rages, DJ, unachi zawapi, because last week I told you I forgot, nika o kenda klas alafu una sahau, date ama una sahau kwa ndi, kaki dogon meshinani ki sahau kwa uliza unachi zawapi, weekend, you inclusive of DJ Max. Friday, Kata's live DJ Max at Samaki-Samaki in Lavinto, then Kershaw atuangwa tika we coming through Pale Vizport Nightlife. Vizport Nightlife, Pale tika we DJ Delma, DJ Siga, alongside Vizi Monyewe. So come through atuangwa tika, juja tika rodiani, shere kwa tika Pale Vizport, so come through will definitely be a vibe. Fun fact about Rages the DJ, ukiyenda tu maali yuko, there's no space to breathe. I don't know what he does to people, they've come. Sijiwe wana kujana maadi mani, but ana act very cool. Ata hai ja ja, hashtag social Friday. Meanwhile, we have a very beautiful guest. Ya, let's get to know who she is and what she does. Hi, thank you for having me. Welcome on the show. Please do tell us your name and a little bit about yourself. Sure, my name is Clara Ruiz or Clara Ruiz in English accent. And I'm a dance content creator from Spain living in Kenya. Can I show them the team? Ya, in case you missed it. It's over here. So pretty. Can I get this in my size? Ya, for sure. Ya. So Evelyn and Ozake by the way. Yes, Clara. How do I say this in the accent that it's supposed to be said in? Clara. Clara Ruiz. Ruiz. Ruiz. Ya, you did it well. Let me tell you where I'm from. Why are you laughing? Because we have that small conversation talking about where we're from. So she's from Spain. I'm Ken Ganyes and then we have several tribes. Now, I'm fortunate or fortunate for me. Where I'm from is. Nani kiskiyam narude story by the way. Intercatch feelings come a touch. But for the sake of being honest with Clara, I'll just explain. I'm from a place called Nyeri. But all the females from Nyeri are known to be violent. But that's not the problem. The problem is our ards and elves. So instead of saying Clara on a regular day, I would probably say Clara or something really weird to you. That actually helps for the Spanish, because that's how we say it in Spanish. Ya. Clara. I've been in my wrong country this whole time. Okay. So, Clara. Again? Clara. Clara. Louis. I didn't know that. Kwanajoyo Zetani. Well, Kwanajonis as you continue. Kwanajonis. Okay. You said you are a dance content creator. Tell me about that. Sure. So I started my dance journey when I came to Kenya pretty much. When I was little, it was like my frustrated passion. Oh. Ya. I did like some ballet or some Spanish flamenco dancing. Oh. Some modern dancing, but maybe up until I was 10. And then as an adult, I never had any dancing other than in clubs and the normal thing. I've always been very dancy. And when I came to Kenya for work, I said, okay, I really want to learn how to dance to Afro beats. And literally, I arrived at 7.30 a.m. on a Saturday. And at 11.30, I was at my first dance class. Wow. And from there, I was just so in love with it and I started dancing more and more, being really consistent up until now that I feel like I've grown a lot, both as a dancer and as a content creator, because throughout my journey I started sharing it on social media and it was a really nice experience. I started creating more and more content and that's what got me here. Was it hard balancing your actual work and content creation? Not really. It's something that I was looking for too for a long time. I had been just working full time for some years after university. And I was like, okay, something is missing in my life. I want to have a big hobby or side hustle that is also a passion of mine, because my work is also my passion. I work in social impact. But this is something that is part of my therapy, my way of growing. And it's really just like, okay, I work, then after my eight hours or after whatever, I finished my key goals for the day, I close the laptop and I go dance. I get it. When I come here and then Raji or DJ Max do the thing, for like five minutes I forget I woke up at five. Yeah. That morning. I forget. I understand. I really get it. You showed us your whole journey. You weren't afraid of showing you putting your right foot where it's supposed to be, your left. You weren't embarrassed with the bloopers or anything? Yeah, for sure. Like I think I'm really self aware and I just try to laugh when things don't go the way they're supposed to go and grow. So that's why it's part of the journey. I am not planning or aiming to be like a perfect and the best professional dancer. It's more about the journey and there's bad days that you look like, what are you doing? But that day is also helping you, okay, why am I feeling like this? Why is this making me feel like that? So you use those times to also grow as a person. But yeah, in like social media really, it's all about having fun. Like you're going to mess up all the time so you might as well just have fun. Ya, mumeskia, sikila sikum na kufana preisha. Don't be dying for preisha for no reason. We are all here trying. Meanwhile, TikTok in particular is a very, very big platform for artists. So they have a song, they release it and then they call like an influencer. Have you ever done that or do you plan on doing it? Ya, for sure. I've actually danced to so many dance challenges and I haven't worked with artists specifically yet. Like an artist coming up to me and saying oh, let's do this challenge together. But I've danced to so many and it's honestly like so much fun. Like I love that about TikTok that someone releases something and then everyone is just interacting with it, bringing their own stuff. And ya, it's awesome for also musicians and dancers to like show their arts. It's great. Would you be on a music video? Ya, ya. Ya? I was on a music video. What music video? It's a KK Manabad artist. Allah. Mastu maza kuwana farm kamaeza pamae jifunze pina maza. I watch on jifunze pina maza. Meanwhile over here, it's a very nice profile picture. We have her Instagram page and ya, okay, so here is her bio as I've been told in Krala Krala Luis and then sharing my dance journey and inspiring people to act out of love. And I see a lot of the things I'm really glad to Mefanevi because there's one particular this is the one I saw was on TikTok but I saw you giving us a literal tutorial with even the dance steps on the screen. Ya, that's so helpful. Thank you for people like me. Ya, I started doing those and I was trying to test if that was valuable to people and actually they're getting really good views and people interacting with it and when I see them from other people I'm like, thank you, I really needed that. I feel the exact same way. So you are dancing with a couple of very very big names in the industry. Tell me how it's been working with them. Sure. Okay, so I would say the first artist that I started they're like my mentors are Chiluba, Chiluba the one who's like my son's say he's the one that has taught me pretty much everything I know I've been going to his classes really consistently and also Ayoma she has a beautiful Shout out to Ayoma. She has a beautiful concept of you go to her dance classes and it's not just dancing it's like all women or girls go and we sit down we talk about how we feel then we dance together and it's normally something very sensual, sexy you're looking at yourself in the mirror and it's about loving yourself and seeing yourself and after we dance we sit down again and we talk and we cry or we laugh and it's so beautiful so I really am so inspired by her and her work and then I've also danced with Tile with Carlos Obura with Kendi there's so many I feel like because I've been dancing in the dance classes and coming up I get introduced to more and more dancers and then we do collabs together and it's like they introduce me to another dancer and another dancer and that's how I've been meeting a lot of people do you guys have a community that you guys hang out let's say TikTok dancers climb a tree or go on a hike do you guys do that? no we don't climb trees okay buddy definitely I think we do hang out and we do a lot of let's go Sunday and shoot content have lunch with Voda as well hey Voda kila am tona jwa Voda everybody everybody and that yes I've been meaning to ask about that because I saw you with gloves also on your TikTok page tell me about that so I do moitai which is it's like boxing but it also involves kicking knees and elbows and I love it so much I want to use rajis as a prop just like him a little bit can we use your as a prop rajis I'm out of me you box you box you wanna try spar a little shout out to my coach Kenboy Amon when do you get time to do all the shout out I think I'm very hyperactive probably I just love doing things and yeah you'll never find me just on my couch what you don't have lazy days like once you just wake up you don't want to do anything today okay last weekend actually it was a very lazy weekend but I have to plan for them I have to say okay I'm saying no to every plan and I'm purposely staying at home because I need the break but my default is I'm always doing stuff so if I really do sometimes masai usi kikudia usi toboe seri hashtag is social for writing okay so we usually have a game section right after we've gotten to know a guest so masai is our game master and I want to invite him over however before we do go what would you like to tell the Kenyans out there who want to dance and are afraid to because sometimes it looks really hard and it looks like you have to have been born with it or something I'm not a dancer but Rajiv gives me if I have sense I hear what we are I listen to better I mean I don't have a specific message to people I don't think that I am in a position either it's also my dance journey and I'm grown but you don't see that you've grown enough to be sensate to someone exactly but you are you could be sensate to someone like try your best and be really true to yourself so if you really want something follow your passion and be super consistent because there's that side of it I feel like in my experience sure I might have dancing is in my body that's something I really love it's my passion I've put on so much work to grow for example on TikTok from like zero because I started in December to 54,000 followers this is 2021 December this last December he just done with it then now in Aga Swift 4000 so I think around May when I had around 5,000 followers is when I said okay I've seen some growth I think that people can find value in my content so let me actually try and be consistent be professional the same way I do in my work to put in the work here put in the hours, test, iterate, try stuff and then that's how some things end up going viral and you grow and TikTok is amazing for that because you can have exponential growth so I would say stay consistent follow your passion and be very consistent and disciplined apuwa disciplined