Roki is considered as the face of urban
grooves in Zimbabwe with his popular song ‘chidzoka’. He says his song ‘chidzoka’
tells a story about a feeling of being lonely and being away from home. His
music is enjoyed by many in the country.
Roki looks at himself as a role model to his
children especially his two sons and other people that love his music and who
want to be part of the music industry. He has five children from different
mothers. He is not married. When he was asked in the show Makosi today about
his first love he said, “Music is my first love.” Since he has got two sons, Roki says he
usually goes out with them for shopping and does whatever they want. He says he
has never really talked to his sons about same sex marriages because he has
never really of thought of that topic.
He went to Big Brother Africa in the
year 2012 where he talked more about Zimbabwe’s music. He says he entered the
Big Brother house because he wanted to gain more attention and greater
publicity from the people in Zimbabwe as well as in Africa as a whole.
When he was talking about his life after
Big Brother, Roki says he is more into art and he owns an arts centre in
Harare. He is a painter and loves drawing. He has got students whom he
supervises in the art centre. He says one of his students made a paint of him
as a thank you gift. Roki says he loves listening to his songs and he is also
good at dancing. He is also a dance choreographer especially for his music
videos. He recently released a song featuring Pauline where he shows his hiphop
dance moves.
He says he wants
his hair to look like Sonic the hedgehog.
Roki says he is inspired by P.Square,
African artists from Nigeria who are becoming international artists. He also
loves pop music, hiphop and African music is his number one.
Now looking back at Roki in Big brother
Africa, we always saw him as one of the coolest guys. He was loved by many
Africans and I almost thought that he was going to make it to the finals. I
actually blame Maneta a Zimbabwean girl who was representing the country in BBM
who was so against Roki. I actually think she is the reason why Roki was kicked
out of Big Brother. I actually think she saw a potential in Roki becoming a the
Big Brother winner. To me, their fight symbolized lack of disunity amongst
Zimbabweans but other people actually think that it was just a publicity stunt.
I also think that he cannot look at
himself as a role model especially looking at what he did to Maneta, slapping
her in front of Africa. To me it shows that he is more like encouraging men to
beat up women, which is not a good thing at all. It’s not like I am judging him
but what I am saying is he could have solved what whatever problems he had with
Maneta in other ways not through violence. 