"While performing at a Christmas concert Marceline Janyure hit gold. Little did she know or have a clue that someone in the audience was highly impressed by her presentation and that something bigger was already in the making soon after the show. "Did he come looking for someone to sponsor or he just wanted to enjoy the concert? "I don't know but all I can say is that if you have potential and you make use of it, sooner than you know doors will open and climbing up the ladder of success will become a reality."

This is the story of Marceline Janyure, who has just released her debut album titled "Chishuwo" (wish).

She decided to call her project by that name because of a longstanding wish to reach out to a greater audience through her music.

Her vision and passion is to reach out to all those in hopeless situations and to inspire them to rise beyond their circumstances and situations.

This first offering is characteristic of an Afrocentric sound which is a fusion of different rhythms and melodies that are very African, a bit of samba and poetry.

As a social commentator she seeks to win all hearts and so works hard to fine tune her appreciation of the different music styles. Many artistes quickly lock themselves to a genre without exploring as many as possible.

One of her strengths generally is the ability to write songs that closely resemble real-life issues.

She says her favourite song is track number six, titled "Ruregerero (forgiveness)".

In that song she encourages everyone to learn to forgive and not keep holding on to the bad things that others may have done to you.

The combination of the lyrics and the instrumentation on this production is made to last a lifetime.

Considering the times we are living in this project is a must have or listen to as it promotes values that sustain a positive lifestyle.

She openly confessed that her inspiration to writing meaningful songs was inspired by the likes of James Chimombe, George Pada, Marshall Munhumumwe and Biggie Tembo.

If you listen to most of the songs by these greats you can learn a lesson or two.

Listening to the whole project you can automatically tell who handled the production.

Mono Mukundu of Monolio Studios and his group of musicians who call themselves Akat Abab Ensemble.

She said working with Mono was a blessing and the right choice as he was very instrumental and very co-operative in trying out her ideas, which is not common among some producers

Herbert Njonga, who is her manager and founder of Rach Foundation Memorial Trust, believes that Marceline has the potential to make it big in the music industry and hence his organisation's support in empowering her.

Rach Foundation was formed in memory of his late wife Rachel Njonga nee Pikitai whose passion was to empower urban women and make them realise their dreams and achieve ultimate suc-cesses.

Marceline becomes the first beneficiary of Rach Foundation.

"Marceline has demonstrated that she is of strong character and as long as she continues to work hard we will walk hand in glove," he said.