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Because initially you're from Germany and Colombia. Exactly. But right now you're best in Tanzania. So tell us how you leave Germany to Tanzania. I'm a full Tanzania. How did that happen? Okay, so the order is kind of the opposite. Basically I'm... My dad is German, my mom is Colombian, but I grew up in Arusha. Shout out to Arusha. That's where I grew up until... Oh yeah? Yeah, and it's still home. My family still lives there. Oh, that's amazing. Like I would never have guessed. So you grew up in Arusha, so that means you understand Swahili. Ndeo, Nailewa. Nailewa Swahili. Ah, nice. So tell us about your choice of name for your... Yeah, your choice of name. So yeah, in Atoka, Swahili, it comes from Dada, because I mean, I grew up with a brother, and my brother has always called me Dada, and I always call him Kaka. To this day, it's what we call each other. And when it came to choose my artist name, I thought it was perfect because the word... I mean, I'm comfortable with it, because it's my nickname with my brother. I love the word, and it also means... It means sister, which is something that's super important to me, sisterhood and women. So basically it comes from your brother. So you call each other Dada and Naila Pita Kaka. Uhu na Pita Kaka na Pita Dada. Ndeo, in here. So, kanda kwaimba alafu, you just decided to go with it. Ah, nice. So, wutongbia kidabo about your history in music. How did that happen? Give us a little background about that. Did you always know you wanted to pursue music as a career, or is it just something that came along the way? I've always known, to be honest. I started playing violin when I was five. You should have brought violin. That would have been epic. Imagine that. Next time. Right? Please, please. Not a lot of people play violin. People play guitar and keyboard and all that. Not many people play violin. True. It's a tricky one to sound good at. It sounds really bad for years and years and then eventually you get good. So I started with violin then picked up the guitar that was kind of just lying around and taught myself some guitar chords and started writing songs and wrote my first one when I was about seven. Okay, wait. What was it about? People always ask that. Do you ever remember it? I remember that it was an emotional song. It was about something that I probably which I had no idea about at that age, somehow. Because I remember one lyric which was for if I did. That's all I remember. But yeah, and I've just been writing music ever since. Professionally, when was the first time you went to a studio now for a serious recording session? So I got the chance pretty early on when I was 11 to go to a studio obviously nothing crazy came out of it but I think that was my first kind of contact with recording when I was about 11 or 12. Right. Now you have this song, Kiti, an amazing song and especially because it's you said it's a dedication to women all over the world. Tell us about that. Why is it so important for you to speak about women? About women empowerment, that is. So I think it's just something that that's so clear that half our world population is female and yet in a lot of spaces women don't make up that 50% much less and they deserve to be on have a seat at the table to have a Kiti Mezani in any space they want to and yet sometimes women don't feel empowered or don't feel confident enough and they really should because we're amazing, we're amazing beings. I've actually never thought about it that well. I think this is like for real because women make up about half the world's population in fact if a lot of men insist women are more than men but you go to a lot of spaces women are not represented as much even in political states like very few women they don't even make up to like two thirds. Yeah. Let it be heard though that here I'm seeing lots of women behind the cameras and everything. Yeah. In studio by the way in studio today actually right now we only have okay I said from Epic behind the scenes only three guys with a lot of women so women actually how do you feel about that? knowing that women are okay I don't want to say taking over but they are finally deciding to take up the right field taking their place. Yes and I love it. Yeah. The cake is big enough for everybody. That's what I think. Okay. Yeah let's all grind. I like that. Right I actually like that. I like that a lot. Right so tell us like when you have the inspiration of all the song did you know already like that's what you wanted to speak about or when you're just making the song you're like you know what let me just mention women or it's something you like it's close to your heart. Is this something you've always advocated for? It is. I grew up with surrounded by lots of strong women whom I'm super super proud of and one being my mom my grandmothers yeah me so much yeah so it's something that's been super close to my heart and and I yeah I knew from the start that I wanted to make the song about that and dedicate it to those women and to all the women out there who are just grinding and amazing thriving and speaking of your man who is in studio by the way gorgeous she's also a momager. She is. Tell us about that is it easier to walk with your mom or like you know like Kris Jenner she's a momager money is all her kids true so now you have a momager how does that make you feel especially when you go to different spaces music is very different maybe when you're performing at spaces that are not mom friendly how does she take it during that time she's a mom or the manager that she put on a face like you know what this is the manager when she's negotiating and everything yeah she definitely does because even when I write songs about whatever topic like she she sees me as an artist she respects my art but it's really nice generally because I don't know your mom always has your best interest at heart that is true that is very true yeah and actually getting to walk and see her at seeing her and walking with her and walking with her when you have to go to different venues I think that is really something because some of us have to travel all the way just to go see your mom but you walking with your mom I think it's very special or you are best in Tanzania right now grew up in Tanzania actually but a lot of Tanzanians listen to bongo but your style of music is not particularly especially for this song is not bongo per se so is this something just experimental are we going to see you do a bongo song or are you sticking with this no you will most likely hear bongo soon or a fusion of bongo with me and my other influences so yeah this song is obviously shout out to South Africa for giving us ama piano just to get to the world ama piano and I was just talking about that we have a DJ who is coming in today from South Africa he is called DJ Bax so I am really excited about that you are doing as an ama piano song is great and you just talked about you are probably going maybe to do something different maybe inspired with some of your influences who are some of the people that have influenced you along the way and probably your style of music as well so I think since as early as I can remember my biggest idol has probably been Shakira ok Colombia the Colombian in New Kingdom resist the Colombian connection is strong but all sorts of influences so I grew up listening to a lot of Latin American music but a lot of pop and hip hop as well and African music as well so yeah you speak a little bit of everything yeah a little bit of everything so Shakira speaking of that did you just get her ok the voice or also the dance jeans the Colombian dance jeans I wish I had more I am not a professional dancer whatsoever I wish I had more of that jeans but I know I like dancing I know especially Shakira I think she's undefeated like when it comes to she's quite something alright let's talk about you have different ethnicities are we going to see you express that in your music yeah definitely think lyrically that's something that I do a lot because I grew up speaking Spanish my mom, German to my dad and I write in those languages as well because that's just how I communicate normally when I'm talking so it's natural to me to do that in my music as well a bit I love mixing different things whether it's languages or sounds I think fusion is where the magic happens awesome and you've been in Kenya for a while now so are you just visiting are you here on a tour are you here to perform yeah tell us about that yeah so I'm here on a little mini tour I was in Tanzania last week touring a little bit doing some performances and Kenya as well I arrived only a couple days ago but seems like I've been here for longer because it's been amazing met so many amazing people what has been the most amazing thing about Kenya so far the music ah no way okay who are you currently listening to that is Kenya that you've been loving so I have quite recently discovered a lot of Kenyan amazing female artists for instance Groovy Joe Groovy there is now for real recently discovered she was actually supposed to come today but she's gonna come to the show next week oh wow okay yeah she's incredible she's really talented yeah Bekita yeah who else Karun I miss Karun she's really Kafmula I know right I know like I don't know why Kafmula did us like that but I'm so glad that she's still holding on like she's very very talented she's very talented yeah so lots of I feel like there's so much talent here so many amazing inspiring artists do you know like what I love most about the fact that you actually say you support women and you can see that even through your music you've mentioned Nikita Karun you've mentioned Groovy Joe I'm sure some people okay apart from Nikita who's like very well known some people don't even know quite well about Karun and even Groovy Joe but you from a different country you already know who they are I think that's quite something yeah alright so as we wind up I wonder do you have any upcoming projects maybe with any female artists from Kenya or male artists any artists from Kenya while you're here are we going to see you do something with any Kenyan artists I will be hopefully but nothing nothing that I can necessarily speak about speak about yet but I hope so I hope very soon alright and other than that I have a new song coming out on July 14th and it's pre-savable if you go to my bio data music daa daa music you'll find a link and you can pre-save it alright you have something to say no no no I want to smile of like okay I'm enjoying the interview you're really excited about the upcoming song I'm just I'm enjoying your vibe you've pre-saved it already yeah so I'm just enjoying the interview here on my side alright no problem alright so you have to perform once again but before you do that check us through the making the making of the song because I've seen you on the beach and all that you want to see check us behind the scenes just a little bit okay it was an incredible process it was a project a baby of Dar es Salaam everything was the music was produced in Dar es Salaam with Daxo Chali excuse me producer from Dar es Salaam we made the song with and yes we made the video in Dar es Salaam as well we went all over the place to the beach to Sokoni and filmed also just women in their thriving in their in their work and we also broke some stereotypes we were mechanics in a scene yeah it was incredible also had four female dancers super talented girls with me very very talented we saw that and we were vibing with it alright so go ahead and send any shout outs if you have any on this camera camera 4 if you have any shout outs if you have anyone you want to shout out do that and give us your social media as well alright I mean big shout out to everyone who's watching thank you so much and big shout out to Daxo Chali the producer of and to my fam to all my friends love you guys and yeah my handles are Dada Music DAADA Music on all platforms Instagram TikTok I'm also on Spotify and Boomplay and YouTube and everywhere amazing thank you so much for coming too and we are looking for to have you one whenever you come to Kenya this is home so just make sure you pass by we'll be so glad to have you again alright so right now Epic has to play for us and you perform for us once again alright before we go but we're still right here the hashtag is Bounce Nation keep talking to us at Filing Jinn at DJ at Epic the DJ right and that's Y2P4 channel across all socials we're coming right back