No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

Always stay true to yourselves.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.