Little known Kenyan Dj Moses Murage alias Zj Avexy raised Sh 430,000 entertaining on Facebook Live. Armed with only a laptop, ZJ Avexy performed in a live set in the Facebook group “254 Diaspora Djs Live on the Mix” on Wednesday. The group has a membership of 70,000 people.
According to a news report that appeared in the Nation Media Group’s Nairobi News the Facebook group was started in March to provide a platform to Kenyan deejays across the globe to entertain netizens who are locked down in their houses during this period.
“Viewers were touched with his plight as he was the first deejay in the group to just use a laptop to entertain them and fundraised the money M-Pesa and Cash App,” the news report said.
“With the amount raised the plan is now to ensure he gets proper deejaying equipment and a MacBook Laptop to kickstart his professional deejaying career,” George Mokuasi, one of the founders of the group said.
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23-year-old ZJ Avexy siad that he has never been trained professionally as a Dj but is eager to become a good deejay in the near future.
“I never expected such a good response. I was just using a simple laptop in a normal background, unlike the other deejays who had performed live in the group. I expected a lot of criticism and abuse but I am overwhelmed with the feedback,” he was reported by Nairobi News. “I just train at the cyber cafe when I have funds on how to use software like virtual DJ, scratch live and Serato – that is how I have learned some deejaying basics. My role models are DJ Joe Mfalme, DJ Moh and his brother Nick Dee.”
He further said: “I am happy to have raised just enough money to buy good equipment and I plan to build just a small studio in the near future where I can train more upcoming deejays in my neighborhood.”
Avexy was scheduled to perform for two hours but heavy rains led to a massive power outage. But that never stopped him as he quickly went looking for a generator in the neighborhood, came back drenched in water and resumed his live set. “Hey…i’m so sorry but i have lost electricity connection due to heavy rains but am doing my best to get a generator and go live..i might be late for some few minutes,” he said.