Mwaki hutmaker, Sofiya Nzau recounts being a hawker before fame
The singer-songwriter also credited her husband for her success noting he in a way introduced her to music and has been walking the journey with her from grass to grace as her biggest cheerleader.
According to the mother of one who has worked as both a hawker and a house help, being a musician was never really in her bingo cards. Sofiya tried her hand in the art out of desperation as her finances were in the rocks and she had seen songwriting had good returns from the work her husband was doing.
"My husband, we were basically doing songwriting together... we basically do everything together so I'm going to mention him a lot.. yeah I'm going to be mentioning him a lot," the globally acclaimed singer sweetly said as she swooned over her man and their relationship.
Sofiya walking down memory lane recounting the scenarios that slowly gave birth to her artistry, making her the big deal she is right now.
"He actually introduced me to music that was back in 2020/2021.. that was Covid season. Before Covid I just used to hawk clothes in Thika town. Then the pandemic happened and it was just....wow! It got to a point where I was like, 'yeah I can't do this anymore' people were going home so early so there was no one to sell clothes to and my business just went down and I was like, 'okay this is not working'
So I told him 'I need a year of rest... a year of just doing nothing. Like no selling clothes as it was draining me and couldn't sustain my bills.
I called my aunt and told her I needed a job so she looked for something for me to do which was being a house help. And I did it... I was a house help in Clay City, Kasarani for a whole year," the singer shared.
As she was home taking care of their toddler, Sofiya decided to dip her toes in her man's line of work... this ended up being one of their biggest blessing.
"So him at the time he was trying out songwriting and he told me it's really good and I was like uhm maybe it's something I can try because he is getting money. Then after one year I got pregnant and we agreed, 'okay, let's just do this... this is fate,' We tried it out and it was good. People were actually excited to use my vocals because I was using my local dialect and DJ's were all over it," the 'Mwaki' crooner stated.
The 24-year-old who collaborated with Brazilian producer Zerb on her breakout song 'Mwaki' recently became the first East African artist to surpass 10 million monthly Spotify listeners
by HANNIE PETRA
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