Happy b-day!

Happy birthday Zuqka, for one year you have lived with the promise of making people famous. And with the technology at palm of our hands we don’t have to stick to project fame and sing our guts out only for it to be used to advertise Tusker on a commercial break.  Zuqka.com promises to make one famous and true to their word, they don't fail. 

How can you be famous in one year? Log on to Zuqka.com, they won't even give you a year, they will make you famous in a week! And they are incomparable to other media forms; let me indulge you in a couple of scenarios.

Imagine you are a footballer, before you become famous you will have to start with the 'hood' football team and if you are good, you join the relegated club, after two years some top club will probably sign you up. You will then be put on and off the bench for a year before you start playing full matches. Bye the time you are on the national team give yourself five years at the minimum.

As a musician you would probably start with singing in the shower then when you are impressed you will sing before your family members. You will then join the church choir or form a group with you friends calling yourselves ‘underground’ musicians. Soon other people will call you an underground musician and then you will submit a tape of your song to a producer. The producer will of course tell you that you have ‘talent’ that needs to be worked on. Here we are talking about three years down the drain before you have actually sung a song. By the time you collaborate with Jua Kali we are talking half a decade.

For an actor the same story applies. You represent your school in the drama festival but after high school you think of a ‘real’ career first. As time moves on you realize acting is also a career, so you sign up at the Kenya National Theater where you are given minor roles in the school set books plays. The passion of acting drives you further where you start with thinking of performing in other plays and by the time you hit the silver screen we are talking a good number of years.

Given that I know the shortcut and yes I am not patient enough…..I log on to www.zuqka.com