00:00I want to know from you what inspired your name, what does DBN Gogo mean?
00:04Oh my god, it's such a long story.
00:06Okay, I'm from Durban.
00:07DBN is an abbreviation of Durban, so I'm from Durban.
00:10And Gogo is like your grandmother, but like I interpreted more as like your ancestor in music,
00:18your spiritual guide in music.
00:19So I am your Gogo from Durban that navigates you through this world of entertainment.
00:26And you are a DJ.
00:28How's been the journey so far?
00:30It's been quite incredible, you know.
00:31I've been DJing for the past eight years, nine years.
00:36Oh my god.
00:37Yeah, it's been quite the journey, you know.
00:41I've always been playing house music, so basically electronic.
00:45Up until I started playing on my piano, which is still house in a sense.
00:49I still feel like it's like the first time I started.
00:53It's really, it's pure and genuine.
00:55And how does it feel being in a male-dominated industry as a DJ?
01:05I really want more girls to join.
01:07You know, you would think with the attention that a lot of the women DJs have now that there's
01:11an influx of women and there really isn't.
01:13I still need more people to break down those barriers, come and join us and be there so
01:19that we can have and take up more space.
01:23You know, men still underrate us.
01:26They still see us as less than or not worthy.
01:30You're meant for the other room.
01:31Yeah, or we can only do this.
01:34Yeah.
01:34We can't do both things at the same time.
01:36But, you know what, it's fine.
01:39It just makes us work harder.
01:41And now, I mean, there are so many girls in Africa watching us right now that would want
01:46to become a DJ.
01:47Like you said, you want more women to join.
01:49But our parents sometimes are still like, you know, a hard nut to crack when you have
01:55to, they have to take you to school.
01:57They expect you to be a doctor, a lawyer, a pilot or whatever.
02:00I don't blame my parents.
02:02They struggle through a lot of adversity.
02:05They're still doing that.
02:07Even us today, it's not that we're not fighting battles.
02:10We really are.
02:12I want parents to allow people to genuinely and naturally go into the things that they
02:18think they can do, the things that they deserve.
02:21I think the hesitation from them is more of, they understand the industry is a dog-eat-dog
02:25world.
02:26You can be hot today and not tomorrow.
02:27But if you genuinely have a talent and you know what you're doing and this is like,
02:32your heart and soul, pursue it because you really never know.
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