November 29, 2010
Philip ‘DJ Winchester’ Mului, by Samuel ‘Sam Yob’ Lukudu
Philip ‘DJ Winchester’ Mului is a 23 year old Kenyan student, he is a fourth year communication scholar at Daystar University and an alumnus of Home Boyz DJ Academy. Winchester currently lives in Nairobi with his mother and younger brother.
Hobbies
Winchester says he loves “hanging out with friends and with mom, cooking and watching movies”. He also enjoys Deejaing, and listening to various types of music.
Education
Before joining Daystar, Winchester was schooling in the central province of Kenya.
As per the reason behind schooling in Daystar, Winchester says it was his parent’s choice adding that he had always wanted to study communication, particularly something creative in that field, thus ended up choosing advertising as his major.
Winchester in Daystar University, working on a class assignment
Deejaing
Winchester says he adopted the name (DJ Winchester) recently when he was listening to a song, during which the artist mentioned the name and he immediately liked it, he also goes on to add “I also liked the name because it is a name of a beautiful city in London, along with the fact that it is a name of an old riffle that I admire”.
“It started just as a way to impress some one” says Winchester explaining how he ended up being a DJ. He says he wanted to do something extraordinary to impress a certain girl, and so he settled on the idea of going to a DJ school.
Winchester accomplished his mission and succeeded in impressing his sweetheart then, but unfortunately their relationship did not last for long, however he says he doesn’t regret going to learn how to DJ despite the fact that he is no longer together with his “inspiring sweetheart” as he described her.
Winchester went to HomeBoyz DJ Academy, and was trained for a period of two months between June and July of 2010. He was not in session during that time, and so he was able to attend the Deejaing classes.
Winchester says, he has not yet performed in a public gathering per se, but he says he is planning to start doing so, before the end of this year.
DJ Winchester, enjoying himself while Deejaing at the home boyz DJ academy
Winchester’s favorite local DJ’s are DJ Hassan and DJ Spooney, who happen to be the guys who thought him how to DJ. “They inspired me” he says, but nonetheless he goes on to add “But you know, the moment you become a DJ, it is as if you develop a mentality to hate the other DJs”
As per the genre of music that he generally likes, Winchester says “I like soul, raga, reggae, a bit of hip hop, crunk and techno”. He says he mostly prefers playing the songs he loves, but goes on to say that it usually gets tricky, when playing for an audience, because the aim changes to mainly entertaining and satisfying the audience, thus sometimes a DJ is forced to play a particular genre that might not be to his liking, “It totally depends on your crowd, if your crowd wants Lingala, if your crowd wants hip hop, if your crowd wants reggae, you have to give it to them, whether you like it or not”
Job and Career
“Once you are in the job world, you don’t know where you are going to land” says Winchester, the way he sees it is either ending up opening his own Deejaing company, or just concentrating on what he is currently studying namely PR and Advertising.
But all in all Winchester says, he will try to reach a compromise, by assuring that his work revolves around entertainment, “I might end up doing a bit of Deejaing and also a bit of the other things I will be destined to do, as far as my career is concerned”
Religion and Faith
“I consider my self, one of the guys who likes sitting on the fence” says Winchester describing himself as far as religion is concerned, he however goes on to justify that by adding “influences come from both sides of the paradigm, that is religion and the secular world and so those inspirations sometimes put you in a state, where one can’t decide where he or she belongs per se, thus sometimes one ends up being stuck in the middle”
Challenges
Winchester considers time, among the major challenges facing him at the moment. He says sometimes unbalanced management of time affects him greatly, and that is why he always makes sure he is managing time effectively.
“I set time to practice on my computer and do my assignments and so on and forth”, Winchester however goes on to say that, the real challenge as far as time management is concerned, comes in the moment he gets bored. “I am someone who gets bored pretty fast, for example sometimes when I start working on a school assignment, some minutes down the line I find my self bored to death, and then what do I do? I start playing my music when I am supposed to be doing my assignment”
A friend of Winchester’s confirmed that by saying “I sometimes find him listening to music when waiting for the lecturer, I guess he loves music that much” says Rosemary sarcastically.
Best Moment in life
“So far I can say the best moment of my life was meeting Alaine” reveals Winchester, referring to his meeting with the Jamaican reggae artist Alaine Laughton, when she came to Kenya early November, “She came to do her sound check before the sepetuka 3 concert, I was there so I got the opportunity of hanging out with her, and I truly enjoyed that” added Winchester.
Winchester with Alaine before the Sepetuka 3 concert
Worst Moment in life
Winchester says the worst day of his life was when he lost his best friend, “it was last year, he was crossing the road, and got knocked down by a mat” says Winchester.
Post-graduation plans
“The first thing I wanna do after graduation is to get married” says Winchester, and despite being single at the moment Winchester says “I am hopeful that she will come along before the graduation day”
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By Samuel K Lukudu ______ 07-1485
