"However, I couldn’t fulfil my dream due to my age [late 20s]. It was tough for me to accept because soccer was my first love, but I embraced what had to be."

"Through this platform, countless lives have been touched, worship has been elevated, and the message of Christ has reached multitudes both locally and globally"

"My dad is a pastor, and my mom is a pastor’s wife. Both my parents are quite musical."

"I’d go for days without going to church, even though I knew it was a place I’d need to refill"

"I find it easy to maintain a decent life as a father and husband who is under the spotlight because of the music that I sing. When I write music, I fast and pray. It creates the intimacy that I need to have when making music,"

"I believe if He did it for you, He will do it for me. But more than anything, it's a declaration of His unchanging love. This is my thank you to God for every season — every pain, every joy. I'm grateful. This album is that gratitude in song."

"God always has a way to reward you and that’s how I live. And if everything I did was for money, I wouldn’t be here today doing this interview because you would have to pay me."

"I'll do it for love. I have done a lot of gigs for free. But I need to survive, I have dependents and I have a family. We don’t do it for money. If money doesn’t come, you will suffer. But if you do it for love and make someone smile,"

"However, as seasons change, so do assignments Rev.Dube believes that the time has come to focus fully on the next phase of his calling, which includes expanding his personal ministry, mentoring the next generation of gospel artists, and pursuing projects aligned with the unique mandate God has placed on his life."

"Soccer was the only thing I enjoyed and loved wholeheartedly"

"We used to sit at home and sing, which I’d say sparked and motivated my interest in music – those moments are my main influences."

"What I love about being a gospel singer is that I get to serve people, unlike soccer, which is more of a hobby. What’s undeniable is that music chose me"

"I write from scripture, I sing scripture, whatever scripture that the Holy Spirit drops in my heart that feels relevant at the time. That's how I write and that's how we wrote almost all the songs in the album"

"I listen to Whitney Houston, Ntokozo Mbambo and Tasha Cobbs. If you listen to their ranges, they are very high. I practice with them. I love their music, I love their voice"

"But age is a huge factor"

"I wanted to do something on my own. I also wanted to be sure that the people who come to my shows are coming to support me and not just to see that famous artist I am featured with"

"You can make a brighter day one smile at time, changing the world starts by changing the life of an individual buy a ticket and most importantly do not forget to buy for someone who needs to be there, everybody needs Jesus. Sekerera"

"We always want to include the audience in our work. We do that because they are part of the production, so when we do live recordings it is not just your voice coming out or your musicians playing, but its everyone, so even the person who is worshiping in the audience which makes it more inclusive"

"I always thought I'd study Law, but when I moved to the UK in 1997 my aunt told me about mental health"

"We are always working with different themes, our sound has always been different from what you see on the general gospel scene, it is a mixture of both the young and the old, the energetic and the calm, a mixture of different languages and different backgrounds"

"I started in circular music doing Urban Grooves for some time when I was a bit younger and it was a good learning curve"

"My late mother had to deal with mental health issues and my aunt was so convinced it would resonate with me"

"Over the years I've had to learn to manage my time quite well. If you're going to strike a balance you've got to be disciplined with time. It also helps that on the work front I've a capable team that I trust so much. So, that gives me a bit of leeway to also do music and my television presenting on the side"

"If you look at someone like Takesure Zamar, who speaks about seven languages and he brings that to the table, we have Evelyn coming from Kenya, she carries that to the table and it becomes a mixture that will cater for every member in the body of Christ"

"I am very excited to be leading gospel music lovers into intense worship and deep praise experience as we will be celebrating life and thanking God for his love and kindness throughout this year"

"Well, in our previous events we did not feature other artistes and it is always good to bring diversity and colour to every event and these artistes are some of my friends, so as I celebrate 10 years of recording gospel music, I thought it will be a good thing to have an inclusive event, where we just come to celebrate together"

"We are very grateful to God for the reception that people have been giving on this album. The sound is different, the sound is new"

"The testimonies that we have received from people who have listened to it, we see that you have been doing something worthwhile and making a difference in people’s lives"

"There is an excitement that comes with connecting with audience and connecting them with God"

"Piracy is always there, but there are ways around it and one of the things is that my genre of music has never been mainstream, so I am not affected much by piracy"

"It isn’t a problem that we can sweep under the carpet, not at all. The problem with drug-related crimes is that it is very violent. It is actually something that requires the government and Zimbabweans to get involved, before it becomes a major problem. Poverty is also driving people to sell drugs and the war against it will be tougher"

"People are still writing about his unfortunate past [when Tyamara binged on booze and drugs], but he was a changed man. I do not care about how he started his life, I am interested in how he ended it"

"I spent his last days with him in hospital. I used to bathe him and give him his medication. He did not want me to leave. He would hold my hand tightly"

"The media never caught him red-handed drinking alcohol, but it is he who decided to come out publicly about his drink and drug problems, and his sexuality,"

"Ukufa akujwayeleki! [One cannot get used to death]"

"We were praying for his recovery, but God had His [different] plan. He is at peace wherever he is"

"he owed his success to his fans"

"Our music is praise and worship unto the Lord Jesus Christ and is also inspirational information for our walk with the Lord. I believe that our music is an unending message unto God that expresses our love towards Him"

"The collaboration is a wonderful declaration song that we did and I’m so grateful to God for it because it really speaks of what is about to happen in my life and in the lives of those who have been waiting on the fulfilment of the promises of God"

"These are the two superstars who healed people with their music, and their music gave hope to the hopeless"

"Lundi requested me to bring his younger brother, Siyabonga, to Johannesburg. They were very close"

"He even came to Johannesburg to look for Rebecca in 1996. At some point, he became Rebecca’s backing vocalist and stayed with her for two years"

"Maybe God is saying something to us as musicians"

"He told me that he did not want to die before recording a new song with me. He was a happy soul. He loved people and everywhere he went, people would feel his presence"

"Let us leave his mistakes [behind] and look at the better person he was"

"Lundi connected his life with God in his last days"

"We bagged more than three awards in music categories. It shows how much our music is being appreciated out there and it’s positively impacting peoples"

"It’s been a year which boosted ‘Getting Personal With God 3’ in a mighty way and we have been made to dominate new territories and God expanded us"

"I also was given a scripture, 1Kings 18:41-46, when Prophet Elijah said I hear the sound of abundance rain"

"He had energy on stage and he was very powerful;His manager Tshepo Nzimande"