Mawimbi ya vituo vya radio nchini Tanzania yako mbioni kuvamiwa na sauti mpya ya msichana anayejulikana zaidi katika fani ya umiss. Ni aliyekuwa Miss Dar City Centre na Miss Ilala mwala 2005, mrembo Feza Kessy. Ameamua kuingia kwenye muziki kwa asilimia mia moja na anasema muziki ulikuwa, na ni kila kitu kwake hata kabla ya kushiriki Miss Tanzania. imefanya mahojiano exclusive na mama huyu wa mtoto mmoja kujua amejiandaaje kuingia kwenye soko gumu la muziki wa Tanzania. Anaanza kwa kuelezea kwanini ameamu kufanya muziki sasa na sio zamani.
“Basically condition ya nyumbani ilikuwa lazima nimalize shule. When I went for Miss Tanzania 2005 I was not really not of a miss miss, ilikuwa opportunity yangu mimi kushow my talent on music which I did na nikashinda a couple of talent shows. After that sasa my mom akasema ‘Okay if that is what you want to do, fanya’. Then nikaenda chuo England and I had a baby and ikawa ngumu kustart up a career na mtoto mdogo. So nilipomaliza nimerudi nina mtoto wangu ni mkubwa, I said this is my passion let me do it again.
Niliporudi nikaamua nianze tena because now my son ni mkubwa,now I can handle being a mother and my career naweza nika handle , so I decided this is time.”
Mtoto wako ana umri gani sasa hivi? Ana miaka mitatu na nusu, ambae ulimpatia huko huko England? Ndio, Manchester. Na mzungu ama na mwezetu? na mwenzetu (anacheka) Siyo Lucci lakini (anacheka tena) Hapana.
Siyo kwamba lucci alikushawishi kwa kiasi fulani ufanye muziki tena?
Not really, no, when I met Lucci sikumjua Lucci ni producer na yeye hakujua kama I have a passion ya kuimba we just met, I have known him for so long tangia……. Me I was born and raised in Arusha, so nilikuwa nilikuwa namjua tangu Arusha. So when we met as friends and started dating nilikuwa sijui he is a producer sababu tulikuwa hatujaonana miaka mingi, yeye alikuwa nje na mimi nilikuwa nje. But then obviously nika find out he is a producer na mimi naimba so we worked for some music together, it was a good combination, but sio kwamba yeye alinishawishi, No! I was already doing this na yeye pia he was doing his things.
Unaimba style gani? Unarap, unaimba R&B ama?
(Anacheka) Kila kitu!! I would say my music is afro pop, R&B, Soul and I rap kidogo.
Sasa hivi upo studio umeshafanya ngoma na Nash, bila shaka unarekodi nyimbo zingine, so lini tutegemee kuanza kumsikia Feza Kessy hewani?
End of November my first single hopefully………sijajua single itakuwa ipi, ipi kabisa but definitely my single ningependa iwe with a song that I did with Luchi, inaitwa ‘Strong Woman’. I am giving you an exclusive. Inaitwa strong woman it’s talking about just a strong woman kwenye society as Tanzania, as me being a single mother. And Luchi is a different producer compared na hawa producers wengine. It’s different music but at the same time is Tanzanian music on a different level. So I believe inaweza kuwa the perfect single for me to bring out late November.
Kwanini unasema Luchi ni tofauti na maproducer wengine, naona kama unampendelea kwakuwa ni mzee!
(Anacheka) First of all sio mzee, he is my ex, hatupo pamoja, Ni washkaji, I respect him because he is very talented unajua just because he is my ex it doesn’t mean I don’t respect what he does. He is very talented, he is very different and another reason kwanini mpaka leo sijatoa any song cause nimerekodi a lot of things lakini ni ngumu kurelate producers, sio kwamba wanafanya kazi mbaya, it’s just a style that I’m doing inatofautiana, you know you go somewhere anakupa beat ambayo it’s not really me, sijui kama unanielewa!! When I am with Luchi or Lamar pia I can work with. Sio kwamba he is the best wherever but he is very talented.
Mpaka sasa umesharekodi ngoma ngapi? Na zote amefanya Luchi?
Four. Hapana nimefanya na Luchi nyimbo tatu. Hizo zingine zipo with different producers which I can’t mention now but ni wengine tofauti tofauti. Obviously Imma wa THT, I have Max who is also at THT I am also working with Max from Authentic studios, ni wengi.
Muziki kwako unauchukulia vipi? Unafanya for fun ama kazi?
Music has been my passion for a long time so sasa hivi nilivyosema I’m coming back into music… before kwa mfano like a few years back it was just talent, a hobby but now I am taking it very seriously, it’s my career right now, yaani that’s my job, my life, my everything, I expect that to feed me and my family so naichukulia kama a business venture, it’s very serious and because ni what I love to do.
Na unaamini kuwa muziki utakuletea chakula mezani?
Ohh yes naamini sana hivyo. My mon thinks I am crazy (anacheka). But it’s good to be crazy!!
Hii tuseme ni kama coincidence kwasababu sasa hivi models wengi, former Miss Tanzania, tumeona Jini Kabula, (Mirian Jolwa) na Rashida Wanjara wana kundi lao nadhani ulishaliskia linaitwa Scorpion Girls na wengine wengine wanaofanya modeling wanaingia kufanya muziki, najua wewe pia wanaweza kusema hivyo kwamba ni mkumbo fulani hivi, unaweza kulizungumziaje hilo?
Kwanza mimi napenda kusema nilienda Miss Tanzania my passion was singing. Nilienda pale kuonesha talent yangu ya kuimba ili nionekane. So that was my aim kwasababu nilijaribu kwenda kwa different producers na nini, na kama unavyojua the game ni ngumu, it’s very hard, ikawa ngumu kwa mimi kubreakthrough to even get a producer who would work with me. Lakini wale watu wa miss walivyoniapproach mimi, to me was like I am beautiful let me use this opportunity to get what I want. Hiyo ndio ilikuwa plan yangu mimi na with this other girls sijui, I am not sure kwanini wameondoka from the miss kuja kwenye music industry, I don’t know.
Miaka mitano unajiona utakuwa wapi kimuziki?
I don’t know. But ukiuliza hata watu wangu wa karibu na my family they always say Feza dreams very big. When I was 17 nilikuwa nasema I’m gonna be Miss World, that’s what I was saying, it was just I dreamt big, hata kama it didn’t happen, I always dream big. Kwahiyo mimi hapa for now with my music I believe I can take Tanzania to another level. Naweza nikasimama with big artists, sijui Beyonce, Rihanna, that’s where I see myself kiukweli, and I am not gonna stop dreaming big, that’s me.
Unatamani kufanya collabo na wasanii gani hapa Tanzania na nje?
Tanzania I would like to do a collaboration with Mwana Falsafa, TID, Ngwea, kidogo niko oldschool. I still love the Ngwea, the Mwana FA, I still love Nurah I don’t where he is. Hawa wapya wapya I think it will be Ommy Dimpoz. Internationally, I would love to do a collaboration with……..Ohh my God this is difficult, Rihanna, Lauryn Hill… I am so oldschool Tony Braxton, these are the people ambao nimekuwa nikiwapenda when I was growing up.
Unajua muziki kibongobongo ni mgumu kidogo yaani kuna challenge za hapa na pale, Djs hawapigi nyimbo mpaka uwahonge na vitu kama hivyo, wewe umejiandaa vipi, utakuwa na menejimenti ambayo itakuwa inafanya promotion ama utafanya mwenyewe?
Sina menejimenti, sina promotion, mimi I really depend on God to be quite honest. Unajua this music thing a lot of people wako talented, a lot of people wanafanya nice music lakini unakuta it’s not being played na nini, kiukweli hiyo namuachia Mungu. I believe kwamba if the product is good watu watasikia tu, I believe so. And that only happens ukiwa unaamini some higher powers kwasababu mimi siwezi kufanya chochote, it’s up to God, it’s up to people.
Unategemea kufanya video zako wapi sababu Tanzania kuna challenge kwamba video nyingi zinaishia kupigwa hapa hapa tu, na wewe una ndoto za kupenya zaidi, una mikakati gani kukivuka hicho kiunzi?
Really I think hapa hapa Tanzania we have people ambao wanaweza wakafanya video nzuri tu. I think problem inakuja kwenye payment. I think if we paid the production company hela inayoeleweka then would really give you something that’s nice. And not kuwasema wasanii lakini we are too cheap sometime. I don’t think ni lazima kusafiri kwenda Nairobi, South Africa wherever kufanya a good video, I think good video inatoka hapa hapa, it’s just creativity, it’s just finding the right production team cause vifaa vipo just that tunajaribu kucram na kufanya vitu vile vile, so ukiweka a little bit of creativity and the right production team we can have something really good from hapa hapa Tanzania, I believe that kiukweli. And honestly after that unajua siku hizi we don’t make use of social media inavyotakiwa.
If your product is really good somewhere someone ataiona tu, kwa mfano when you put it on YouTube wherever it will get there somehow ,somewhere. Halafu pia kuna another thing wasanii wa Tanzania tukiweza kuunite, I think kuna shida ya unity with the most artists in Tanzania kila mtu anataka kutoka kivyake, kila mtu anataka kumzidi mwenzake it’s fine but the competition that we have is not constructive.
Umetisha!!!
(Anacheka) Unajua that’s another thing when you believe in God and when you believe kwenye muda wake yeye things really work out. Kwa mfano ningeanza muziki nilivyokuwa ile 18 I don’t think ningeweza kuwa mimi, I don’t think ningeweza kugundua my style or what I want to do, I think I was too young to do that ndio maana this is the time, I believe this is the time cause najijua mimi ni nani najua Feza ni nani, najua Feza anaweza kwenda mpaka hapa, Feza hawezi kwenda mpaka hapa. So it’s just a beautiful thing to know who you are and what you want to do and that’s why naamini sana music can really feed me and my family because siingii kwenye muziki kusuasua.
Kwa mfano the last three months niko THT wananisaidia na vocal training, sio kwamba sijui kuimba but it’s because I want to go to another level sio tu unakaa unaenda studio unaimba, I am training my voice, I am working out, nakimbia beach kama kichaa(anacheka), so that mwisho wa siku when you see your product mtu akijaribu kucritisize anakosa hata kitu cha kuongea. I am not gonna leave kwamba uzuri wangu ndio unibebe kwenye video, I want it to be proper and I hope kwamba it will be good.
