 Yes, yes, yes yo that is Nadia bringing us to this link right here and we have something special for you shout out to Nadia for dropping that new song with Calligraph Jones and Fena Gitu as well it's trending on YouTube check it out VDJ Khalifa has been serving you the music is not gonna stop all the way till 10 and my name is by Moses or it's by more every social media platform and we have something big this Sunday and Y254 is not going to miss out that's why we have the main man himself using Mugwa and studio just to share more of this with us all right so concert mumbani is coming yes this Sunday 11 TV stations 11 TV stations and also social media platform yes streaming yes all right this is big right here but introduce yourself for calling on a corner for the first time you're a quite famous guy but call on a corner for the first time introduce yourself to the game I don't know if famous is the word I'm a producer I run a company called the convention reality TV and which is a company producing this concert mumbani in partnership with kind of from commission actually the CEO of kind of from commission was supposed to be here with me right now his which is why I'm wearing a blazer the past but unfortunately he's held up in a board meeting so you would be joining us yes so concert mumbani it's a it's an initiative by by my company I created this TV show and the thinking behind it was as soon as COVID happened one of the first things to go away was musical entertainment because you couldn't do concerts you couldn't DJs couldn't perform in clubs you couldn't go to clubs at all and so to and you know the big part that music plays in uplifting us I mean look at the morning you guys are playing really yes hype music they actually love us for that they do yeah so as soon as COVID happened of course some of the things that was the went away was musical performances and artists tried to cover it up or like to make up for each other with with the live streams and you had I think a bunch of all the top artists have at this point gone live but the problem with that is the biggest one I think was nashinsky which was about 8,000 views the problem with that is well it's very good and it's very uplifting it has it's limited in its reach live streams are expensive how many people have bundles to stream and now along sure not me and then of course even then it's still limited to the urban areas so a lot of people need this uplifting in in the whole country aren't getting it so this was the thinking behind concept money how do you then take the same music and blast it to millions of people who are they can access it without without much cost to their pockets so TV is still playing a huge role in TV is still how you reach the masses in Kenya still I mean this is going to change as it's going along but as soon as still because the the cost of data is still high data reach itself is difficult I mean if you're if you're in the farthest part of North Eastern Kenya you won't even have the money for the data but the connection is not very good so this is the thinking behind it musically but then how do you also take this music and and and not be deft toned deaf to what's happening around us so that's why we introduced the element of documentaries so for every music performance you see on concert in bunny to be dedicated to either frontline worker or a regular or a regular canyon was doing fantastic for his community in the way of helping alright so what time should we watch after this so 2 p.m. Sunday 2 p.m. on Sunday all right so Sunday afternoon is family time ideally this is well before before covid just be out of church and so the thinking is this when the whole family is gathered the young the young and the old it's a relaxed time it's not it doesn't clash with tough news because you see towards the evening around 7 prime time like I'll be that's that's very serious timing it's when you see the news of who's died and who's alive it's what you see I see the news of what's happening politics I didn't want to really clash with that I definitely is more chill you know so yeah that's good for consuming music alright how does kfc come in and this is not can take it right again this is commission how do they come in and what is their role in this so can if I'm commissioned has sponsored this whole program they've picked up the bill for everything we approached we have a good working relationship is kind of from commission we've done a few projects here and there before and of course the CEO Timothy or what say is very forward thinking I mean since it took the reins at the commission you've seen a lot of changes you've seen like just recently they think they are worried about almost 30 million to different filmmakers do different things and so when we approach can you from commission this concept we got a yes with the same week I mean they discussed it internally and we got a yes the same week and very soon after they were able to facilitate it for us which is what allowed us to pay the filmmakers is there's over 80 filmmakers at this point now involved in this from camera guys to caterers to lighting people to the bands that played the back music for the for the musicians so it has provided employment it has provided employment for over 80 people this production alone and on top of that of course there are plenty stories that you will see on this and can a phone commission is has paid for all of this of course through the ministry of information I see each other alright so shout out to the government shout to KFC as well for that as yet is an internet sensation and that you picked as a host for this show yes how did this come to be so the whole thinking behind the selection of the artists was driven by who at least from my where I saw two other artists that play I've played an instrumental role during this period if you remember as I had became a sensation like I think she was already slightly bigger tick tock but I for one had never heard of her until she did the Utawezana challenge yes I think it was just week three or four into lockdown when initially everybody was still hiding at home yes she gave her something to smile if she did and her smile it went all around I mean all of us saw those dances on our phones yes and she brought a lot of happiness to a lot of Kenyans during this period and so I thought this was very instrumental this so the thinking I was having our as host of the show is a lot of the younger population the guys who watch your channel don't really watch the other channels much so then how do you get them to come and be interested in something like this so you they have to have representation and so as I had represents this and of course she's co-hosting with Monique McGregor and Monique McGregor represents your parents all right on Sunday when you tune in you will see your your dad will watch this and not feel a virgin and neither will as I as age meets so this was the thinking behind the choosing of their of the host but at the same time even the other the other people on the show from the poets Sitawa Mombi and Jazzia they also make very uplifting art Ben Soul is on this show as well he makes very very good music and this is very very beautiful songs very uplifting and Al Shaddai as well came out by heart the band came out just right after covid happened and for a lot of people this has been the song for them I'm not religious much myself but I can tell you I've listened to this song yes these are some songs that you hear even without playing them yourself and played a key role during this period this is this is the art that has been uplifting people and so we wanted concert in bunny to add to be a representation of this as well all right so Kenyan artists are involved heavily Kenyan filmmakers I so and also leak is also involved in also like is directing you know and also leak and I went to to high school together all right we went to uphill together and we were we were the school of stars yeah so she so went to this school and also went to this you went to this I don't know if I'm a star but yes other on the top 40 under 40 by the way the lot of stars is a lot of stars went to to upper school and also like and I were in drama we're in drama club together and we always used to play the girl roles as a president we played one famous show called a jail and this is a cross-breed he can act as well yeah well he used to all right so of course we did we went to high school together then we we parted ways we met after high school and he was a teacher at a college in town and I was a teacher at McKinney school we were both he was teaching music I was teaching a film and so we've we've known each other I've known him since high school if we've kept in touch but we've never worked together and you know Enos is fantastic when it comes to music videos I've seen his work I don't he doesn't much introduction export so what Enos came this is the first project we've done together I approached Enos very early on when I came up with the concept was like yeah this is an easy thing to do you know because Enos if you know Enos is very much a lot of it it's chill so yeah I'm very happy that Enos is his co-director this but also on the documentaries we have a we have a fantastic director her name is Kate Keoko so she's directed in the documentaries as well he share companies called keep pens films they do with this very emotive good quality videos you can check them out on YouTube all right wonderful so the big question is is this a one-time thing or you're looking for to have been more and more of this so this is it's we are hoping it'll be episode one because thinking it's a very expensive production if you look at the trailer because of all this building yes you're going to be sampling the trailer for you yeah building of sets there's quite a bit of travel required because of the documentaries so we are hoping that after this first airing we'll get sponsors to come on board and then make to allow us to make more episodes mm-hmm all right so what are some of the stories we should expect this in so as I mentioned all this is for the purposes of celebrating people who are doing great for their communities so we have a we have a border border writer from my Vasha who's who's taking it up one himself to ensure that kids don't play around and spread the virus we have footworks was an artist in Kibera who's was doing fantastic work as you I don't want to preempt too much just just a time yeah we have some ladies in Tala who've been taking care of the policemen who worked there we have Dr. Jemima who's who's been on the news already because she's been during this period you know and especially when we had the lockdown and cessation of movement as you can imagine for pregnant women it's very difficult to access health care mm-hmm so Dr. Jemima has been going out of our way and doing this and so you'll see a story of high and one of the beneficiaries it's very heartwarming mm-hmm so yes stories like this all right wonderful as a filmmaker who's making moves right now there's so many filmmakers were stranded right now for lack of better words what are some of the things they can take advantage of right now during the COVID teach so of course there's a government budgets days and above all you can only take refuge in your art I'll give you an example think of as I had or or flak of lack was also come out really big right not really filmmakers but they are their creators and all they did all they did during this period is they became proactive they created more there's a quote it's a business quote it says during a period of crisis be proactive hope is not a strategy so you can just sit at home and hope you have to do your bit man create all right so this this would be my my my my my my words look the stage into the eyes right then tell them hope is not a strategy yeah all right so another thing we'd like to get to know you now because there's a lot of talk about you you made it in the top 40 and the 40 you and you made it really early I think they should have made it up 30 and a 30 I've been on the fobs top 30 and a 30 all right twice all right and you've achieved so much yet people consider you a young person I am all right maybe you can tell us you went through a lot you you told me about your story in high school yeah the things that you went through did you see yourself being this guy at 18 at 18 yes yes so I started working out pretty early working rather not working out but you work out as well yes of the week not weekdays not on weekends weekends I rest so but I finished high school at the age of 17 and then I turned 18 about a month later and immediately I moved out of my own and I started working I'm not from a very privileged background I would want to get into that but my childhood wasn't very present so I knew that if anything was going to change it was going to be up to me so immediately as soon as I turned 18 I started working immediately and I was an extra on inspector moeller if you know the show yeah yeah yeah to play a true and kid I hope those videos never surface I was on YouTube this is before this is before YouTube was huge I have my contact I'll talk to my contacts anyway so you extra yeah I was an extra on inspector moeller I was a boom swing on matcha cherry I was an extra on nocturnal junction I was asking man I didn't I did all jobs on almost all those film sets as I was trying to learn the trade and then my first company I think was in 2010 or 11 how old were you back then 20 I think by then no no maybe 19 all right so that must have registered your own company 2009 yeah I was 19 so my friend Dexter and I we set up a TV company so our thinking was we've been on all these film sets we've seen the director say cut so you know and you say cut it means stop say actually means go all right you can probably teach this to high school kids kids rather so what we did is we set up a company and we went to a bunch of schools my kidney school sent Austin's and proposed to them you know how you have drama club and music club how about we set up a film club but we charge the kids and they accepted so this was the first business I did I saved up the money on that I had one of those 50 Bob movie shops outside of the SIU so during this period I joined uni to study reproduction when you paying for yourself no I had a guardian who paid for my school fees but then upkeep and all this other stuff was was was on me so then I joined uni but I didn't stop working because I went I joined evening classes between 5 and 9 p.m. so then during the day I would work and I did all these jobs so I had this video game shop where guys would come and play at Xbox PlayStation but the same time is you sell this 50 Bob movies this one and went on for a while I was still you know doing jobs on different film sets and learning the trade then eventually I decided I don't want to climb up the ladder I want to own the ladder so I've set up my own TV production company how did you come I don't come up with these books so I set up my material production company and I came up with this concept called young rich the day in 2012 might have seen this show yes I'm a big man yeah and I pitched it everywhere and then eventually K-24 picked it up in 2013 and it made a lot of money at the very big that was your breakthrough and that was the first TV show and since then I've been creating an average of 1.6 TV shows every year so one point if you do them what's like since then I have get in the kitchen which I created that right on K-24 we have story angle and my shaman and story angle and our perfect wedding on my shamanic a perfect wedding is a top TV show in the region top top wedding TV show in the region we have foods of Kenyan KTN we have Bing Bahati we have best of there's a bunch of TV shows I think and now we are we are almost at number 11 and just announced this week we have a new reality show with Saudi soul coming up wow exclusively you had a first on why do I fall on why in the morning and you really she showed with south so yeah I think we just announced you're probably announcing today I hope I didn't leak this information thank you very much for leaving that information away this is going on Twitter right now after we finish all right so what is this about sorry what is this about with Saudi soul it's about their life it's about their life it's about their music it's about the process that it takes to get to where they are it's about the relationships that they are cuisine a personal lives are involved as well yes very heavily it's a proper real show but it's a the format is a bit different than what you're used to so we're calling the format so my company used to be called young rich television but we've since we brand it to documentary reality TV and we only focus on those two genres primarily and and and the the new show soul family is a combination of both it's a combination of documentary in reality so it's doky reality so after show you'll see a lot of elements of documentary where we go back into their past and and and the the events that made them who they are today because you know your accumulation of your accumulation of of your past all right events but at the same time on the real side you also show you what they're doing now like what their day-to-day life is like how are they coping with COVID how are they because you know that such solo are huge they're just about to embark on a on a world tour you remember for their new album which is fantastic and so this has been set back a bit so what are they doing instead to cope how are they they have all these things you are going to see them that they have a rebel you had it first on why in the morning on why do I voice out he saw reality show coming to you soon all right so before we get back to what's happening on Sunday from your analysis what is it about reality shows that gets people glued to the screen because I've never understood this I don't know if I can honestly answer for you that question because the answer is not pretty the answer is not pretty no so this is relative for a reason you watch aspirational people all right that's why if you watch the conditions everybody hates on it but it still every season it's bigger and bigger that's why they could be everybody hated on being Bahati online but you're all watching you're hitting on me before it was the full episode man so that is a motion you have to tap into it all right and then of course it's the this in society there's I'm getting too technical now but society there's people who consider like I'm a very technical guy we love technical don't you love technical there's people in society who are arbitrators of taste like these are the guys who carry who tell you how to dress and usually in most cases the celebrities so you watch shows to keep up with them that's why it's called keeping the conditions for example being Bahati you watch it because he's a star and don't see how he did it but then when you watch it you also think you're better than him so it's envy so anyway it's a primary emotion I love this if you're planning to do a reality show in future remember to stop into that emotion right there let's get back to Sunday and in a few words just tell people what they should look out for and the reason they should be glued to their screens yeah so Sunday 2 p.m. on almost all major TV stations including TV including Y254 concert new bunny will come on your screens performing will be Ben Soul at the band sit our mom be my sharia jazz here we have a fantastic lineup of poetry and music and all of it is dedicated to great canyons who are doing a lot to help people in their communities thank you very much for that one thank you very much for coming through to Y254 and thank you very much for what you are doing we're looking forward to more Rob this we are hoping it's not going to stop here we also as well all right VDJ Khalifa it's about your time but remember we have a question on Facebook who is a 10 superstar for you who is who's the star that is a 10 and name Sonny mgani name celebrity mgani I'm by own on a company 10 quacko tell us on Facebook so we can share it with the rest of the world this is social Friday my name is by Moses or it's my own every social media platform VDJ Khalifa take it away