"Yes, as a woman in the music industry, we do meet challenges, a lot of them. However, at the end of the day, the answer lies within one as an individual to focus on their goal. When you know what you want to achieve, you step on these thorns, get hurt, but you keep going"

"To young ladies, join the music industry when you know what you want to become. Anything is possible. You can be whatever you want to be, but the secret is knowing what it is and taking the first step"

"After what happened I prayed to God and told myself that I will not act on my anger but let God have his own way"

"If I am to leave my church then God must tell me where to go but for now he has not spoken so I am still a member of Zaoga Forward In Faith"

"I am still fellowshipping at my church where I used to go in Braeside, the only difference that is there now is that I cannot carry my duties as a pastor, I cannot sing in church, I cannot open or close with the word from God among other things until the discipline is uplifted, I do not know when but for the mean time that is what I am doing"

"I loved the fact that we got to have a full house in Coventry and fans were happy to meet me for the first time"

"We are all ministers unto God, but I believe Minister Mahendere means a servant of God who serves at His throne, doing some errands for Him, even sometimes ministering to His people"

"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"

"I tell you, I’m actually shocked by this version of Minister Michael Mahendere on it”, he said with a chuckle, promising much more mature music in Getting Personal With God 3 Breakthrough, set to be released on March 24 and going into mass distribution everywhere, including online stores"

"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"

"I remember sometime last year on a Tuesday evening in a church service my father, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, repeated the words ‘Say My Time Has Come’ for more than 50 times, and immediately a tune and words came into my heart and I wrote this song"

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

"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 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"

"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"

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

"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 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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"I looked it up and felt it was definitely the right thing to do"

"to equip people with quality mental health care to make informed and healthy decisions about themselves, their relationships and their future"

"We also helped the group find a sense of purpose in life"

"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"

"I thoroughly enjoy television presenting. Over the years, I've learnt to immerse myself in the media space and I strive to teach my audience something they have not heard before each time I'm on air"

"So, we were just re-engaging for the second episode of our programme. We wanted to catch up with her and see how she was doing. However, to our surprise were the negative vibes that we got from people. They were cursing at her and some cursing at me for giving her an opportunity to speak. After that there were family members calling me saying, ‘don’t support her, don’t give her anything because she is doing drugs and she hurt her mom"

"I wasn’t meant to live this long,I was a sickly baby but look at me, living and beautiful. That’s a blessing."

"Her music uplifted the spirit of millions across the world."

"She was the living library of music and an iconic legend with vast experience."

"Her music will leave on, and we will never forget her meticulous fashion sense. Because clothing is armour and makes important statements too."

"She belonged to a generation of artists who transcended boundaries in art and politics long before we coined the concept of globalisation."

"A response to the daily experience of being harassed, grabbed and catcalled at in public."

"I didn’t plan to be a singer, singing planned to be in me."

"They want to know how someone like me, who hasn’t studied music, can understand it so well."

"The way of my singing is message. You send a message: It’s love, it’s sadness, it’s everything."

"I’m a child of every part of this continent."

"I’ve been fighting not for a particular area — I’ve been fighting for South Africa, I’ve been fighting for Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo and all these places. So I feel I don’t belong to one place."

"People in music want you to play small so you can make them feel better. That’s why you see so many bands break up no matter how talented they are."

"Home is a myth and, at some point, I had to accept that. I have lived in so many places and I have just learned to accept that you belong where you are."

"I didn’t understand why I should be barred from that restaurant or being with that person."

"The day I learnt that I was in an abusive relationship I did not stay one minute and made plans to get out of there,"

"When we were dating and when we first got married I only really started to see the signs of what was going on and that I am in too deep. 21 December 2021 was the day I stopped loving him and had to break loose."