Speaker 1: And music. You actually need the hiatus. You need the
Speaker 1: rest to be able to come from a place that
Speaker 1: like you've filled.
Speaker 2: That feeling of like people seeing you and you're seeing
Speaker 2: them and that energy exchange.
Speaker 1: Like wow, it's I understand why big artists who tore
Speaker 1: our own cokaine.
Speaker 3: There's a certain duality you probably have had to exist.
Speaker 3: And you know, being a career woman and then also
Speaker 3: being a musician, how do you manage that.
Speaker 1: I'm always always be careful those.
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Speaker 2: Above and born singer, songwriter, rapper and spoken word artists
Speaker 2: based in Melbourne, Australia, attributes her upbringing in Zimbabwe as
Speaker 2: paramount to her sound and development as a creative artist.
Speaker 3: Her creativity and talent have given her the ability to
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Speaker 1: But we've got this, we got welcome. Hello, so good
Speaker 1: to have you here. It's so so good to have
Speaker 1: you here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were giggling having the best time before we
Speaker 2: press record, and we're so excited to have this conversation
Speaker 2: with you and to get to know about you because honestly,
Speaker 2: and I think we said it when we spoke on
Speaker 2: Zoom before, it's you know, we don't get to spotlight
Speaker 2: our artists as much as this. You know, it's hard
Speaker 2: to find and get to really know a bit more
Speaker 2: about them. So that's why we're here, and we thank
Speaker 2: you for making the time to be here. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna go all the way back, Okay, we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Start from.
Speaker 2: How would you describe the music you make and how
Speaker 2: you got into it, Like when did you know that
Speaker 2: music was going to be a part of you and
Speaker 2: who you are going to be.
Speaker 1: I've always loved music as a child. So if we're
Speaker 1: going back back back to the beninging, when I was
Speaker 1: in krage, like I was part of all the musical things, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to play the piano I wanted to do
Speaker 1: And the funniest story about all of that is so
Speaker 1: my dad used to work in Botwana when we lived
Speaker 1: in Zimbabwe, and I asked them to buy like a
Speaker 1: toy keyboard and it was the real thing. So that's
Speaker 1: how I learned how to play keys. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of in the journey and the story. If you grow
Speaker 1: up in church and people spotlight that you can sing,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the choir something that was also
Speaker 1: my training ground in terms of like developing how to
Speaker 1: sing singing and how harmonies, yeah, outdoors, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff as well. So that's contributed, but also just
Speaker 1: the music that I grew up around. Now all of
Speaker 1: them tookward Z in fact, all the brand of Farsis
Speaker 1: and Malaika, all that kind of influence from all over
Speaker 1: the place, and then later on the Lauren Hills and
Speaker 1: the different stuff that I listened.
Speaker 2: To now that i'm but your stage presence is really
Speaker 2: like something to note. You have an energy and your
Speaker 2: engagement of the crowd. I think I saw a clip
Speaker 2: of you at an event or I don't if it's
Speaker 2: a wedding or something, but even just like how you
Speaker 2: got everyone going, I think it's something that so many
Speaker 2: people can sing, but not everyone can entertain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take that distinction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when you listed like a brend of Fassi
Speaker 2: in terms of like your inspiration, like, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: I can see that. Like for the performance aspect, could
Speaker 2: you share like some of your influences.
Speaker 1: Oh those are really tough to think off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. But hm, I guess you could say Brenda.
Speaker 1: But it's just more just watch it. I enjoy. Like
Speaker 1: if I go to a concert, for example, I immerse
Speaker 1: myself in like what the artist is trying to do.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like, for example, I like to
Speaker 1: be there early because I want to see, Okay, how
Speaker 1: are the people here? Because your audience is also like
Speaker 1: reflective of the type of music that you made, the
Speaker 1: kind of energy that you give off, and then how
Speaker 1: they start the show and how they end the show.
Speaker 1: So every time I go to a concert, you can
Speaker 1: see me with my phone like, Okay, I like how
Speaker 1: they did that. I'm a big learner. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I have one specific influence. I just learn
Speaker 1: from whoever I encounter.
Speaker 2: That's so true, and that's why I say, I know
Speaker 2: people are giving Kendrick Lamar a hard time about doing
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, But if you've watched him in concept,
Speaker 2: you know he ain't no rapper standing there with the mic.
Speaker 1: Let's just put it out there.
Speaker 2: So I think people have this misconception that, like, oh
Speaker 2: he speaks on very deep topics or whatever, he can't perform.
Speaker 2: But you're yeah, I mean the other.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl that he did and he had the guys
Speaker 1: that went hard, the Doctor dre One, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've toured just recently with Sampa the Great.
Speaker 3: Can you tell us more?
Speaker 1: What? Well? It's what would you like to know? Why
Speaker 1: can you tell Touring with Sampa was interesting in two
Speaker 1: ways because I've known Samba for a really long time,
Speaker 1: so we had developed sort of a friendship in comparison
Speaker 1: to like working together. So the opportunity actually came because
Speaker 1: one of her backing vocalist actually felt sick. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was Yeah, it was really tough for the crew. And
Speaker 1: then we were all in Adelaide for this first of
Speaker 1: all called War Adelaide, And initially I was only meant
Speaker 1: to do like the spoken Word that I'd done the
Speaker 1: previous year. And she sent me the tracks and she's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know there's a song called black Role Magic and whatever. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Are you able to like just jump in with us?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: I'm like trying to learn the songs. And then next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, she was like, I mean the whole set,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, so I'm getting my makeup
Speaker 1: ready to go to the show. Wow, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out the harmonies.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that is a true artist right there.
Speaker 1: Insane. We're driving, I'm listening to it. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I need to learn the words. Yeah, so learn the harmonies,
Speaker 1: learn where to go in, where to stop. We're just
Speaker 1: like it was just insane. So I just went on
Speaker 1: that stage, didn't knew what I knew. And luckily, because
Speaker 1: Sample is my friend, I listened to her music, so
Speaker 1: I need I've been to the rehearsals and we just
Speaker 1: went and did it. Then after that her other working vocalist, TiO,
Speaker 1: was also a great musician in Zambia, had to take
Speaker 1: some time off and then she asked me to join
Speaker 1: at all. And then that's isn't that a story of
Speaker 1: stay ready? So you don't.
Speaker 2: Because you obviously you know your craft, so you prepared
Speaker 2: to learn and understand music and all that, so when
Speaker 2: you're called in, you're ready to rumble. I know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it was you know, a lot to do. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, I think you'd have you built
Speaker 2: that muscle right so that you could step up to
Speaker 2: the plate, which is a lesson online.
Speaker 3: Because I saw I was laughing and I was thinking
Speaker 3: life on toll how is that? And I was like
Speaker 3: following you and seeing all your you were like hot
Speaker 3: take you know Victoria.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was like, you know what one of the.
Speaker 3: Represent how was it being on tour, going on stage?
Speaker 3: Like how does that feel? Day after days? I think
Speaker 3: people just see the end, right, we see you. You
Speaker 3: don't see the reversals, the creative behind that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's so funny? As well, like after that the
Speaker 1: war made laid situation that I'm talking about. So she
Speaker 1: asked me to come on tour. She send me the
Speaker 1: music and I'm learning it, and I thought when we
Speaker 1: got there, would you have like a one two? So yeah,
Speaker 1: we got there and they're like, okay, this is our stage,
Speaker 1: like is tomorrow We're just gonna have a discussion, I said,
Speaker 1: a discussion music. So I was literally learning as I went,
Speaker 1: like learning like you know, how to how to also
Speaker 1: find my voice in terms of like because with in
Speaker 1: ear monitors, like if you can't hear yourself, you can't
Speaker 1: hear someone. You actually have to say like I can't
Speaker 1: hear I can't if you're uncomfortable about something like actually mentioning.
Speaker 1: But the great thing about being under someone like sample
Speaker 1: was that she's is that she's so patient and she's
Speaker 1: so understanding and she wants to make sure that you're comfortable.
Speaker 1: So she would come up to me, she'd be like,
Speaker 1: are you okay? Are you feeling okay? Is it something
Speaker 1: that we need to like practice later? And at the
Speaker 1: hotel like things like that. She always makes sure that
Speaker 1: everybody's good. Like she's so humble, and I think being
Speaker 1: on tour with her was like a masterclass, like being
Speaker 1: able to just like sit but also serve like someone
Speaker 1: else's dream like that was that was me and I
Speaker 1: learned a lot like the way she works the work ethic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: through the tiredness, through all the crazy things that happened
Speaker 1: behind the scenes on tour, we can go into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 3: Were your family and friends always supportive of your musical journey.
Speaker 1: Don't know you said people what it was, it was
Speaker 1: just for like a year. Dogs. I think my family
Speaker 1: actually didn't anticipate how serious this would get. I think
Speaker 1: in Zim it's it's kind of chill because you're like, no,
Speaker 1: she's she's in the church choir, so that's nice. But
Speaker 1: when you move to a place like Australia, when music
Speaker 1: can actually be your career, I think it didn't really
Speaker 1: sink in for my parents in particular yet as to
Speaker 1: like the possibilities and also just I think what they
Speaker 1: were worried about maybe is like the safety in the industry,
Speaker 1: the stability, and also because I'm not just the music
Speaker 1: like I'm quite like, uh, I guess let's.
Speaker 2: Claim and claim You're thinking, is this going to be
Speaker 2: a talk.
Speaker 1: Doing my gigs and you my gigs. It's just like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's as cute as a hobby, the thing that you
Speaker 1: do like after school or during school assemblies and we
Speaker 1: can come and watch you in school settings in high school.
Speaker 1: But like pursuing it was really, like really really tough
Speaker 1: for them, especially like from a religious background, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's always that debate of like either washing guard.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, gigs at night in the frondom of people taking.
Speaker 1: We've lost her going back. Yeah, I understand they're worries
Speaker 1: because obviously there hasn't been anyone in our family or
Speaker 1: someone they can see as a reference. The references that
Speaker 1: we see are people who are on drugs and they died.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, there's no bit of a yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: this went well. So essentially it's like and they went
Speaker 1: on dlags, they died. Yeah, so that's what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: to you. That's gonna happen yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 2: And that brings me to the next question, because there's
Speaker 2: so many misconceptions about being an artist and making music
Speaker 2: and music's music and their myths and all this. What
Speaker 2: are some myths or misconceptions about making music? Being an
Speaker 2: artist that you would like to debunk And why do
Speaker 2: you think there are these kind of mythal ideas around that?
Speaker 1: Oh, there are many, I think. I think one of
Speaker 1: the main ones is like people assume, well, think that
Speaker 1: making music is quite easy. Just like the process of
Speaker 1: like oh, you write a song and then you put
Speaker 1: it in one of recording and then you released it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that process is excruciating.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes like you get like, for example, for myself,
Speaker 1: there's songs that I haven't that I'm still working on
Speaker 1: that we started working on in twenty twenty two. Oh
Speaker 1: wow wow yeah, and it's like the song is complete
Speaker 1: but not yet but whatever. And then there's some songs
Speaker 1: like there was one instance we went in the studio
Speaker 1: he was like, sicco I don't know if you know, Kegan.
Speaker 1: He was playing something on his on the laptop and
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, I have an idea. We
Speaker 1: wrote the song in one day and now it was
Speaker 1: just like fixing it. So that aspect of like you know,
Speaker 1: songs can take time. Some songs take years, some songs
Speaker 1: take a session. Some songs take and you actually don't
Speaker 1: know and when it will. Yeah, that materiate it also
Speaker 1: the fact that, like I guess we're always confident is
Speaker 1: another misconception. What did Erica wud you say?
Speaker 2: I'm an artisan and I'm sensitive.
Speaker 1: Ship That's what she's she meant it because yeah, like
Speaker 1: like songs are babies, so any like criticism any like
Speaker 1: you try to do that like already but yeah so
Speaker 1: the and and if you're somebody who deals with perfectionism, yeah,
Speaker 1: bad part. It's like you're nitpicking. You're constantly like it's
Speaker 1: it never stops true. So like it'll be like you
Speaker 1: finished writing the song, You're like, Okay, cool, that's fine.
Speaker 1: We've done the production of the track. Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1: And like, for example, in the process that i'm in,
Speaker 1: like mixing, fixing, I'm mastering a song, You'll be like, ah,
Speaker 1: I like it, but I don't love it. Okay again,
Speaker 1: do this again, fix this, fix this little thing. Fix
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody will probably even here. Yeah, people are not.
Speaker 2: Someone I think listen to a song and be like anyway,
Speaker 2: I think artists very like can be very subjective, right,
Speaker 2: so you know your intent going into making it, and.
Speaker 1: Like what you hope for it to do, like for example.
Speaker 2: Me, my day job. Anybody like outside going to be
Speaker 2: like Rumby, you don't know how to do that, or
Speaker 2: like you you wrote a bad sentence, like they have
Speaker 2: no clue what I'm doing. But art is a very
Speaker 2: like it's you display, you share, it's something really once done.
Speaker 3: It's there, and the shame can be both ways exact
Speaker 3: opinions exactly.
Speaker 2: So I think that's what makes it even more difficult
Speaker 2: because you're critiqued by so many people, different different, different visions.
Speaker 1: Why did you do that?
Speaker 2: How come you know? So I can understand why you
Speaker 2: feel protective of your baby and then like you feel
Speaker 2: like it has to be perfect?
Speaker 1: But yeah, well that's.
Speaker 3: You spoke of the energy you have when you perform,
Speaker 3: and we've seen it many times and we love it.
Speaker 3: But how does it feel for you when you're on
Speaker 3: stage and you're performing for a crowd? And if you
Speaker 3: can give us an idea of when it's a crowd
Speaker 3: that vibes and a crowd that like.
Speaker 1: What do you engage in yourself for each of them?
Speaker 3: Because want an image? What do we give you back
Speaker 3: that makes you feel?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean to start off with like, because I
Speaker 1: feel so honored and privileged to have this gift, like
Speaker 1: I am grateful regardless of whether people give me energy
Speaker 1: or not, which is why probably you see the energy
Speaker 1: because despite what people are doing, it can add more
Speaker 1: like if people are already feeding to what we're doing,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, oh, oh.
Speaker 2: You're okay, we can really, we can really.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now how you can go? Do you so? Stepping
Speaker 1: and and a lot of it also is adrenaline, like
Speaker 1: just sheer adrenaline, like you're jumping on You're about to
Speaker 1: have a good time. It also depends sometimes whether I'm
Speaker 1: doing with my band or bout myself. I guess the
Speaker 1: mental thought process behind it is just like you get
Speaker 1: to show your music like this is these are songs
Speaker 1: that I'm writing in my bedroom. Is like when I
Speaker 1: was still living with my has this music that I'm
Speaker 1: making on my keyboard late at night randomly when I
Speaker 1: can't sleep or whatever. So now people get to experience
Speaker 1: like where I'm coming from with the music. In some instances,
Speaker 1: I can explain what's the I guess the idea behind
Speaker 1: the music. And you see people just like enjoying and
Speaker 1: have a good time, and.
Speaker 2: That is how does it like that experience of people
Speaker 2: like giving you energy? That was like I kind of matter.
Speaker 2: I'm not a I don't perform. I mean, I've been
Speaker 2: in choir. But it's a different thing when you're in
Speaker 2: a group versus like that feeling of like people seeing
Speaker 2: you and you've seeing them and that energy exchange.
Speaker 1: Like wow, it's I don't know how to explain it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a soul to soul spirit spirit connection.
Speaker 1: You're like, you see me as a person on a stage,
Speaker 1: but I also see you as a person as people
Speaker 1: we're here. We all have different life experiences, but we're
Speaker 1: in this moment together hearing probably a song you've never
Speaker 1: heard before for a song I've listened to plays and
Speaker 1: so many times. But we're like our I guess our
Speaker 1: lives have collided and to be able to share in
Speaker 1: that moment, and I'm glad that I can give some
Speaker 1: like relief or joy or whatever it is that somebody
Speaker 1: is like coming out to look forward, search for that's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I mean, you spoke about having your degree, and obviously
Speaker 3: there's a certain duality you probably have had to exist,
Speaker 3: and you know, being a career woman and then also
Speaker 3: being a musician. How do you manage that till this day?
Speaker 3: How did you even logistically logistic really because I think people,
Speaker 3: as you said, people make you make it look easy.
Speaker 1: That's just the truth.
Speaker 3: That social media also highlights that because you see a
Speaker 3: highlight reel. But we want to know on a day
Speaker 3: to day what does it take to really okay?
Speaker 1: So disclaimer. So I studied psychology and currently I work
Speaker 1: full time in child protection. So let's start there. So
Speaker 1: my days can look anywhere to Like, I wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning, I do all the work, and I
Speaker 1: work with children, so there's a lot of trauma stuff
Speaker 1: that's happening working with parents, dealing with parents, you know,
Speaker 1: because where I work we deal a lot with play
Speaker 1: therapy like reconciliation between child and parent, and role modeling
Speaker 1: like positive attachments and all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 1: it's quite intense work. And then I'll finish work, maybe
Speaker 1: drop the last child home somewhere in Melton, then have
Speaker 1: to drive all the way to nickel Ham or Bandura
Speaker 1: for a studio session that starts at six o'clock. And
Speaker 1: I'm there till maybe like eleven twelve, sometimes even one
Speaker 1: or two. I'm driving at home, I'm getting there, probably
Speaker 1: haven't had dinner, so I have to cook something up
Speaker 1: really quickly in the bed, up again next day to work.
Speaker 1: And if I have a show or something that's rehearsals,
Speaker 1: that's time after work that you have to put in.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like writing. And not only that, because I'm
Speaker 1: also an independent artist. There's emails invoices, someone said they're
Speaker 1: not someone said they're not available on this rehearsal days
Speaker 1: to find another one. Okay, where are we rehearsing? What
Speaker 1: are we rehearsing? What's the set list? What order is
Speaker 1: the set list? How are we going to communicate with
Speaker 1: a person on the ground, Like it's just a never
Speaker 1: ending list of things to do? Can I ask you?
Speaker 2: Because we are recording this at the top of the year, right,
Speaker 2: And you know, I think a lot of us, especially
Speaker 2: from our background, we have dual interest, right. We have
Speaker 2: what we studied or the work, the ninety fives, whatever,
Speaker 2: but we also like this podcast. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 2: a passion project for a man and I we love it.
Speaker 1: We do it with our whole heart.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you always reach the point where like what
Speaker 2: am I doing this for?
Speaker 1: WHI?
Speaker 2: Or like how do I continue? And I and I
Speaker 2: hear you speaking about doing your work during the day
Speaker 2: and then at night having to you know, do your
Speaker 2: other work. How what advice would you give someone who's
Speaker 2: maybe thinking, Jeanetta, I'm done, it's too much. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: throw in the towel, Like balancing that what keeps you
Speaker 2: going and what do you have to remember to keep
Speaker 2: going in those moments where you get home after work,
Speaker 2: maybe it was a rough day and then the last
Speaker 2: thing you want to do is try to write a
Speaker 2: song that's positive. I mean, you don't have to limit yourself,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, but I'm just saying like in that moment,
Speaker 2: you're not thinking about that, You're thinking, I just want
Speaker 2: to escape watch Netflix.
Speaker 1: So advice that I would give to someone who's ready
Speaker 1: to give up, yeah, I think always going back to
Speaker 1: reflecting on your why. Like for me, like my faith
Speaker 1: is a big part of it. So I always have
Speaker 1: to remind myself like God gave me this gift and
Speaker 1: I have to keep going. This is only the beginning,
Speaker 1: Like not to despise the small beginnings. It's going to
Speaker 1: be tough, like anything that you do, and you want
Speaker 1: to do well and with passion, take sacrifice. You just
Speaker 1: have to keep going. And in some situations, it actually
Speaker 1: means taking a break and resting and actually giving yourself
Speaker 1: time to do that, because, for example, in music, you
Speaker 1: actually need the hiatus. You need the rest to be
Speaker 1: able to come from a place that like you're filled already.
Speaker 1: So it depends on what it is that you go
Speaker 1: to fulfilling, hopefully not not the you know, yeah, the
Speaker 1: toxic things. But you need rest. Yeah, how do you
Speaker 1: do that vocally? Actually?
Speaker 3: Because obviously even on a tour, you're like singing day
Speaker 3: after day.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about tour. Hey, I understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is gonna unpopular opinion, but I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: I understand why big artists who tour are on cocaine.
Speaker 1: I absolutely get white because the like the consistent going
Speaker 1: because you have to remember, like when you step on
Speaker 1: a stage, right, you're on this like adrenaline, and when
Speaker 1: you get off for something having so much fun, but
Speaker 1: like you have to go to bed and be up
Speaker 1: at four am for a lobby call, to catch a
Speaker 1: flight at six a m. To be in another Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's like that constant. Like well and also like
Speaker 1: because we were coming I was coming from Australia, like
Speaker 1: the jet lag. So you're dealing with jet lag, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with adrenaline. You're dealing with Oh maybe I didn't
Speaker 1: sing so well, and yeah this one, I'll try to
Speaker 1: make sure I practice a little bit more to do this.
Speaker 1: You're interacting with like my bag did my bag arrived,
Speaker 1: we're picking up beds, we're rushing to a flight, okay,
Speaker 1: we're arguing with the lady at the counter and all
Speaker 1: of those things. You get to the venue, people don't
Speaker 1: even pay attention to you, or like there was one
Speaker 1: the last show that we did. We went so there's
Speaker 1: like what we would call rises, so that's where they
Speaker 1: put the instruments or you kind of step onto it.
Speaker 1: We stepped on a rise on myself and one day
Speaker 1: who's sample sister who was also a musician, and we
Speaker 1: were doing back in Focus together, we stepped on the
Speaker 1: riser and the rise of slid what oh okay, nobody
Speaker 1: came to apologize. Nobody said it was was mad and
Speaker 1: we looked around like, yo, who was responding, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he has it? What has it crazy? Yeah? So you
Speaker 1: deal with like a lot of things, like little things
Speaker 1: and like yeah, yeah, while life.
Speaker 2: Is a whole other for sure, and yeah, what would
Speaker 2: you I know we're going to come to a closing,
Speaker 2: but I would love for you to share your advice
Speaker 2: for artists who come maybe from a similar background as
Speaker 2: we do, artists where maybe art is not prioritized as much,
Speaker 2: and where for me, for example, I really think we
Speaker 2: are a creative people, but we have been denied our
Speaker 2: creative outlets a lot of the time. So what would
Speaker 2: your advice be, or what do you hope for our people?
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe our future generations, so maybe they
Speaker 2: don't land where we landed unfortunately or fortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for the young people coming up, my
Speaker 1: advice would be so cliche, but just keep going and
Speaker 1: find ways that you can still maintain that. So for
Speaker 1: some people it might the blockage might be like I'm
Speaker 1: in my parents' home, so I can't really do things
Speaker 1: in a particular way that I imagined write. More like you
Speaker 1: have the agency for yourself to be like, at least
Speaker 1: in this season in my life, I'm going to sharpen
Speaker 1: my right school. Yeah, in this season in my life,
Speaker 1: I'm going to learn how to sing better, have to
Speaker 1: have more agility in my voice, how to do all
Speaker 1: these things. I'll probably learned keys, I'll learn how to
Speaker 1: do the logic stuff. I'll learn, like just do something
Speaker 1: like don't like when you're faced with an obstacle, then
Speaker 1: give up completely because there's always a way and you
Speaker 1: can always find a way, and just trust God.
Speaker 2: Why do you make music? And I know you added
Speaker 2: to it, but why do you make music? Because I'm
Speaker 2: hearing you and like you this is probably just like
Speaker 2: the tip of the iceberg of the things you have
Speaker 2: to have had to navigate and all that, But why
Speaker 2: do you make music and keep going? Aside from it
Speaker 2: being a god given talent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, who you're I make music because it gives me
Speaker 1: a sense of freedom that's both tangible and INTANGI yeah,
Speaker 1: like on the stage, I feel like and it's weird because,
Speaker 1: like you know, on a stage you can have a persona,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's a persona for me necessarily.
Speaker 1: It's more of like a more what's the word that
Speaker 1: I'm looking for? An extension, extension and a revelation of
Speaker 1: the full extent of because I feel like when you
Speaker 1: deal with people and people don't actually know this about
Speaker 1: me that I am quite shy, which is quite strength
Speaker 1: in person, Like if I don't know you well enough.
Speaker 1: I'm quite straight back. I can have a conversation. I've
Speaker 1: learnt how to do that over time. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like you're there, you leave your all. It's fun
Speaker 1: as well, and it's actually enjoyable to be able to
Speaker 1: do that. Music has also been therapy for me in
Speaker 1: some of the hardest moments of my life that I've
Speaker 1: been able to write about as well. So it's like journaling,
Speaker 1: but it's with maybe write music instead of journaling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, So in high school when I was getting fullied,
Speaker 1: like you know, all of that kind of stuff, I
Speaker 1: would just write. And it's interesting, most of the music
Speaker 1: that I've written, I will write it like subconsciously, and
Speaker 1: then later on I will sit with the music and
Speaker 1: reflect and be like, oh, I was actually honestly experiencing
Speaker 1: this at a time in my life.
Speaker 2: To all her bullies, how at her now?
Speaker 1: Look at her now? God?
Speaker 3: Bless yes, God bless you know, I mean twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five at the top of it. Are there any upcoming
Speaker 3: projects you want to see, things you want to share
Speaker 3: let the people know, do you think?
Speaker 1: Yes? So so many things I won't reveal too much.
Speaker 1: But what I can say is that new music is
Speaker 1: coming out. Yeah it's wrong your coon. Yeah, We're coming
Speaker 1: with Ginger and it'll be music that's expected from me,
Speaker 1: but different from what I've done before. And once again,
Speaker 1: like I just I love music, so I can This
Speaker 1: is not just to brag, but I feel like I
Speaker 1: can make any music as long as I like it.
Speaker 1: Like if you told me to write a country song
Speaker 1: right now, I could be like, okay, I'll write it,
Speaker 1: but I'll write what I like. Yeah, if you ask
Speaker 1: me to make an I'm a piano track, I can
Speaker 1: make it. It'll be the way you like, get a vibe.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be music from I guess music
Speaker 1: from Southern Africa. It's like a blend mixture of things.
Speaker 1: I'm just titling music for the people. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: a title. We has a title, but I can't reveal
Speaker 1: it yet. Yeah, but yeah, it's music for the people.
Speaker 1: Exciting and can find you socials and all that. You
Speaker 1: can find me on socials. You can find me on
Speaker 1: Instagram at miss Niasha so that's m s n I
Speaker 1: A s Ha. You can find me on Facebook TikTok
Speaker 1: my TikTok. Hey that's a long story. I didn't come
Speaker 1: back with a new one. Can that blocks me from
Speaker 1: since like January twenty twenty four, I took a break
Speaker 1: from TikTok, tried to log I have to make a
Speaker 1: new one and then on Spotify all the music platforms.
Speaker 1: Is just and I a s h A in all
Speaker 1: capitals because we come with yeah, dynam.
Speaker 2: And small hotage that let's just say thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time, like this has been so insightful,
Speaker 2: and Amanda and I are artists at heart, and so
Speaker 2: we love to celebrate other artists and give them the
Speaker 2: time to shine.
Speaker 3: And we also realize our country can sometimes belated for
Speaker 3: they and we really, we really want our platform to
Speaker 3: keep celebrating creatives because you also know the blood, sweat
Speaker 3: and tears.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, and especially when you feel like you know,
Speaker 1: people aren't suppose supportive or you don't have the finance, yes, backing, backing,
Speaker 1: the resources, the oh your apply for grats, you don't
Speaker 1: get the grads, Like you can be really discouraging, but
Speaker 1: there's always a way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's always that the church that amen, yeah take risks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: So much for listening everyone. This has been another episode
Speaker 2: of a live podcast, Amanda's Great as
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