来 miwaского mwatua wakini wa hukema wakini, mafu mwakini matuuna uki desu wakini, kuna wakini wakini amusikutua, wakini wakini wakini, wakini wakini watua wakini wakini utulatia na na pomo kwa na mwatua wakini wakini wakini wakini wakini wa kama wakini wakini wakini on Instagram at Y254 underscore channel and in case you do want to participate in the conversation do not hesitate even if you want to tell our deputy president congratulations make sure you do so my name is Hilda Wadili and I'm joined in studio by a very lovely lady who not only doubles up as a makeup artist she is an ambassador of Christ Sherra music is here in studio and I will allow her to say good morning to you so that you can hear her beautiful voice hi guys good morning my name is Sherra I'm a gospel artist and yeah it's lovely to be on the show thank you very much yes and now Sherra is here for the first time on Y254 to debut her song umeni penda yes can we talk about what inspired this particular track I wanted to get a bit real with people because the song is about when people leave you in life for whatever reason be it a relationship be it a partnership anything like that I just felt like I needed to speak about that because sometimes people don't speak about these things so the song is just giving people hope that whatever situation you may be in and you find yourself abandoned left you should not give up because God has not given up on you God has not run out of people that can be with you and support you and that he is forever your hope so the message of the song is don't give up like there's so much love in Jesus there's so much love in the world and um don't let one situation or two or three bad situations just make you really have a bad outlook of life so it's about uh how you view life and how not to give up because there's a God in heaven yes it is interesting why did you develop such strong faith from like why did you decide even you wanted to be a gospel artist um well I've been a Christian for many many years I got born again when I was very young and how old is very young I was seven years old last one you met Christ in class one thank you I did and um obviously over the journey I went through a phase where I back slayed actually I remember when I went to uni all that stuff but I came back to Christ and I decided to use the gift God gave me to sing for him I wasn't going to do it any other way so what is your definition of backsliding all right so when I went to uni for the first you know when you go to uni there's so much um peer pressure to do this oh yes yes there's all this oh you can go here for drinks you can do this so I just did you know I went for I used to go for drinking I wasn't really going to church actually I was I was just I was disconnected from God I still had God in my heart but I was completely disconnected so I did that for one semester which is say from September till December thereabouts so I do remember that new years we went out you know as a group of friends and we got really drunk and you know when I got back I wasn't even myself and I was like God I'm tired I'm tired of this life I'm living because it does not give me the same fullness it does not give me the same warmth the same fulfillment that I got when I was serving you I just felt really empty in as much as I was out there socializing you know to my level best drinking doing whatever I wanted wearing whatever I wanted it was not satisfying me at all so I came back to church and I went to church and I said Lord I want to bring you back into my life and it was a journey from there I can't say I stopped club I didn't stop clubbing overnight and I know people do club and you know me I don't really judge anybody because people do what they do they know where they stand with God yes but personally I don't really do that anymore but it was a journey for me and even the drinking was a journey for me to stop you know it didn't just happen overnight yes but over the course of say one year I just realized oh I don't even go clubbing anymore I don't really even like drinking anymore and then I got more into God more into God so it was just a journey interesting so you actually speaking from somebody who's been through that life oh yeah it's not like from looking outside the box so share our music has actually been through that life she's been out here doing what people you know what we are doing yeah you know what we are up to so make sure when you clock into the new year you remember that there's a God somewhere in heaven all right anyway anyway anyway I would like you to change your mic just a little bit so that the fans can hear you again so I'd just like you to tell them your social media handles so that you just in case to invest it they can talk to you okay yes so guys all my all my social media handles are share our music so it's s-h-e-r-a space m-u-z-i-k and that's all across twitter instagram youtube facebook all of them are like that yes and this is the umeni panda hit maker but it's about time we get real syndios you guys let's get real let's let's talk let's talk so now she's the young person in the gospel industry and we've had a lot of debate when it comes to gospel artists here in Kenya where do we draw the line in our videos in how we do our music such that we know gospel is this this is this is secular so um there's one particular character who's really been in the limelight and he's received a lot of terror let me call it terror terror threats from fans and that's really paul and they say that his music has kind of gone towards the secular direction yet he started on gospel and he's not giving us a good example and what have you so as an upcoming artist who wants your music to be hip to be young to be relatable to to the young people how do you feel about this whole scandal um the thing about willy paul is i this sounds very weird what i say but i feel like yes he's a busy bit of a rebel and he likes to do whatever he wants and all that stuff but it's possible that we may also have let him down as a gospel industry because you know when a child or i'm not saying the child but when somebody starts going the bible says when you see somebody doing something yes you should correct yes not do it with making them feel so condemned and making them feel like you know i really really messed up because the more you do that to somebody the more you push them away and the more you make them see god as this god who's just judges people so strict yes that that that doesn't give people a second chance and you completely omit the message of grace which is what god is all about so i do feel maybe at some point we did let him down at some point but i also feel that you know he's just a bit of a rebel and you know he's very gifted really well very yes and maybe he just wanted to do his own thing and he might find his way back at some point so we must always um also just pray for him you know if we are being really genuine yes let's let's pray for him but i don't think it's all good to to be so harsh and condemn somebody because at the end of the day you don't know where somebody's heart is with god that's true yes and i always say people will be so surprised that the people they'll find in heaven all those people they think they thought went to hell be surprised you'll meet them in heaven but anyway anyway that's besides the point and now that we've talked about the industry the gospel industry how did you feel like the industry received you how did the producers treat you um how did the directors how did you go about finding directors as a young lady who just debuted into the gospel music industry now as a recording artist how did the industry receive you are you getting shows is it easy are you looking to join any record label have you tried to join any record label before let us know um the reception wasn't bad i'm not gonna lie it was i expected it because i didn't think i was just gonna release a song and be a one night heat wonder kind of thing i think i was a bit realistic about this i realized it's a journey you know everybody starts somewhere your first song might get to this point it's okay your second song you know you'll keep growing and growing and growing so i was okay with that um i i think i really do not have complaints the only thing is that um so yeah as a young girl single girl you know you are very vulnerable because anybody on everybody just might want to hit on you yes or maybe do your favor because of of maybe what they can get there is that aspect of it yeah and it's it is very frustrating especially because you're a gospel artist and you're trying to be an ambassador of christ yeah you're trying to be moral yes you're you're trying to be the person that is portraying purity uprightness yes but then the very people that are meant to be helping you are the ones that are even trying to compromise you i cannot say it happened a lot to be honest so let me not say it's a thing out there but it did happen to me to a point i was like oh my god you know am i going to do this because it's a complete paradox to release a gospel song and then maybe you're sleeping with somebody yes it's just completely bizarre yeah and if you feel like you're at that place as an artist you really need to just drop the whole thing okay because i was whatever god gives us to serve him with will never lead us into a path of of distraction yes so if that path is leading you to distraction it's not god and you must wait till a time when you're stronger to be able to to to follow that path without getting all mangled up in all that kind of thing so what i'm getting from me is god will never ask you to compromise even if you're trying to preach you know you have to put this song out there because it's it's pay making people get saved but at what cost at the cost of your own morality at the cost of your own soul no and that's a very powerful word going into the new year and all the ladies out there that also want to delve into the industry god will never ask you to compromise so if you like she said if you see it's going towards a path of distraction move away anyway let's talk about the pool you've worked with now the people who have supported you the pool who have made you get to this particular point your directors your producers let us know about these individuals and why did you decide this are the individuals i want to work with this wb yes let's let's talk a little bit okay so like wb um i decided to work with him because i saw a few of his videos and were just very fresh you know loads of colors smoke dancing it was just very energetic fun colors that which is what i like if you i have done a song and it's on youtube it's called niko hapa and that song is a typical kenyan thing that i did when the long dress and it was i like they said typical kenyan thing no it was as a gospel artist you know there's this thing and all of us that enter the industry you know we all want to look like masimaseka in muema and you want to dress with us we thank you yes we we all want to just look a certain way like to dress like who to just be accepted but then what i realized is everybody has people they are called to so sarake masimaseka the reason they are they are above and they are doing really well is because they are they are following what god and who god called them to yes personally i i am very youthful i burn i love fashion i love makeup i love accessorizing and the girl on youtube watching fashion what so it was just such a contradiction to then do these things which i did then i just said you know and also god told me you have to be yourself to be who you i called it to leave a mark on this earth yes you have to be yourself yeah because be who i called you to be exactly because anyone else yes because god has given you has equipped you to be you he has not equipped you to copy somebody else to that you know so my my new song i i what that what he was doing doubly be resonated with what i wanted and you know he's a very nice guy very easy very humble easy to work with and and he's also reasonable he's not like super super expensive so that's why i work with him another person i work with is yo alex he's a producer yo alex yes sounds like yo alex no like sometimes i go like yo yo yeah i work with you alex and one reason i like you alex is because he's so efficient um you give him a truck and for me anyway i he's just very efficient and he's very good this song that i did we recorded in like maybe four hours the whole song and then i came back later to change maybe just one kalaian or something and that's because he records and then he edits i don't even know how he does it before you know it you just have a song so i i do like you alex so those are the two main people i've worked with a guy called trade jules who's also a video guy he's he's also really good very artistic saint p on a project with him oh saint p yeah and saint p is just such a cool guy so patient you know saint patient look he's actually really patient you know because sometimes you can do a whole thing yes and then later you're like i don't even like this it'll be like okay scrap that let's do it again other people will be like no you're just gonna have to make this make this work because i'm not going to do this again so i i like that about him that he's very very patient very accommodating yeah interesting okay yo alex yo let me just say yo to you okay all right because your name is yo alex anyway anyway so let's talk about how the funds received you know now aside from the industry how did the funds receive you your video ganadum was 9 000 views you're doing well and we'd like to know when you go out there when you step into the into the streets when you're in front of the church or in front of the congregation how do the funds receive you okay what do they say about you okay so at the moment the only funds have identified with that are online i don't even reach that stage you are here go somewhere someone recognizes me i know you can get there you'll be shocked 9 000 is a lot of people by the grace of god you know but um they're the ones of i know i i like them i don't have any like they're good they're supportive and what i i i know and um that some people was telling me in the industry and this is a message to ladies generally as ladies generally we we hide back we call back we are a bit shy we may be very gifted but you're like here i've got this song and the guys are not like that the guys usually they're like this is my song yo blade kind of thing so the funds are okay i think it's just us as girls to sort of give them more and just interact with them and know that that they're actually wanting good things like good music from us they are open to good music well interesting because i think girls tend to call up because they don't want to be labeled you know you're pushy or bossy who's like me no nini i'm very familiar with that feeling so i know like most girls they kind of hide back because they don't want to look like they are you know but guys nobody categorizes them so that's a very interesting point i never saw it that way but you're right yeah nobody categorizes them you will go looking the way you're looking and so and be like hi your partner not one is coming to boast for us over here you know so kuna vene people out there you need to be a bit considerate just because we dress nice does not mean we are bad people amma yeah it's true yeah or that we're not approachable or yeah you're right yeah anyway anyway so let's go back to the industry talk if you could change something about the industry me i've told you what i would change if i could be in the industry just stop the bullying girls just because they dress like this and that yes but what would you change about the industry if you could change something i would make it more structured because in kenya it's you really have to push and you don't really know where to start like if somebody is just there very gifted they can sing yeah and they get songs and they want to sing uh it's you can't open up a directory like there you can google search at a nearest supermarket nearest restaurant you know nearest what now how do you start at google searching des producer for this kind of music true that best videographer even shows you know it's it's you have to just start getting to know people then they advise you then you try this and you're definitely gonna get disappointed at some point we all have so you would try to reduce the disappointment yes you know for me i feel it's a bit heat and miss and the one thing which i must say i must i cannot forget to say is that for me the grace of god has just been so key in this journey the grace the mercy the favayani just god god because there's some places i just get called to go and interview or even how people take me or just some things i experience that are just beyond me because i'm like i don't even know if i deserve this of course you know like last week i was on bambika on citizen and i was like i felt so honored and humbled because so many major artists have released songs in this season i mean i think everybody who is everybody has released a song everybody who is everybody everybody with somebody seriously like if you want to be called a gospel artist i think everybody tried to release a song before christmas yes and uh and obviously everybody is looking for a show but me yanni just small me that is not even whatever god just put me in there so for me that's a very key part and i have to say that it's not just about walking hard it's also about a seeking god to to be the one that leads you and guides you in this journey basically letting go of the need to control and just let god create the path for you interesting so let's talk about inspirations and people you'd like to work with in future who would you say that in the industry that you look up to or it could have influenced a bit of your music they could be watching you right now so yeah let's hear it okay so it always changes it always changes it's okay so i think the person i'll say for this week keeps changing okay maybe alice kimansi i like her worshipy because i'm a very worshipy person as well it is a part of me that's like that and i to be honest i don't even know i've never met her but i like her music and yeah probably i could i would interesting so now that it's christmas season alice kimansi i hope you've heard girl girl child has extended her hands so we can shake hands how many hands oh right all right now it's christmas season we'd like to know what are you up to for this particular season and what do you plan to do come 2019 can we expect more music from you is there anything in the kitchen cooking that we can expect to hit us onto the very fast day of 2019 just let us know what we can expect from the any shows any upcoming shows yes i think christmas i'm just gonna go with the flow and um you know just have a nice christmas spend time with friends family um yeah that's just what i'm going to do church you know yeah fellowship celebrating christ that's what i'm going to do for christmas so new years you're going to be in kesha uh maybe oh maybe i was just asking just to kiss you but i well for me i'm going to be honest i do like um crossing over in god okay that moment is crucial just just to say god please this year just go before me i just like to dedicate that year to god okay great great all right it's about time we conclude this segment i would like you to wish the fans a merry christmas and tell them your social media handles one more time and then we can exit okay guys so guys um want to wish you all a very merry christmas i hope you have fun with your friends with your loved ones um i love you so much and um once again my name is shara music i'm a gospel artist kind of new my social media handles are shara music z as a music with zik yeah or that's across the board all right shara for you you've not said merry christmas gosh oh haven't i okay guys i'm sorry merry christmas like i wish you a super merry lovely amazing merry christmas love you okay shara do you mean me kupenda not me kupenda up or why in the morning family make sure you request her song many pandas is going to be coming through shortly thank you so much for coming shara music i'm aniaje yes don't touch that doll jamu chacha is coming up next to the next interview with some more of freestyle friday