03 Jun 2018

Maun-born Gaekgone Lesego lives to fulfill her purpose in life by using her God given talent to touch and inspire many through her music.

In an interview recently, Lesego, who goes by the name Ms Gee in music cycles, said she was led by the belief that “a person’s purpose is greater than their failures.”

She said as a high school student, she wrote her first song, unraveling a world of musical wonder. She then purchased her first guitar despite not having the skill to play it.

“Equipped with a lesson guidebook, I began teaching myself how to play the guitar which was then my favourite musical instrument,” Ms Gee said.

After a friend taught her how to string together the chords to produce a song, she began exploring and played to many songs she knew until she eventually put together her first song with a guitar.

Ms Gee says passion and skill are the only things that can take one far, therefore she desired to do something far more meaningful with her music.

In 2014, her dream became a reality when she went to study worship and technical arts at Christ for Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas, United States of America, where she graduated with a diploma.

It was through the studies that she was equipped to also teach music.

She said she learnt that “life without a purpose is a tragedy worse than death itself,” and she finally found the missing puzzle in her journey.

Ms Gee says she prefers writing her songs without restricting them to a genre, and instead allows her followers to define it as they desire.

“They have to date categorised my music as jazzy, soul and afro-pop,” she said.

Her music is usually spiked with Rhythm and Blues, and Jazz with an African feel in terms of sound and instruments.

Ms Gee is proud of her Setswana, which she aims to promote through inspiring and quality music. Through her newly released album called I CAN BE, she believes that words have energy and power and they carry the ability to heal, hinder, hurt, humiliate or destroy.

 “As most Batswana we grew up in homes and we are exposed to environments where many of us are told we will never amount to anything, that we are stupid and mere failures.

For some it has gone to the extent of physical and sexual abuse, but we must understand that it is near impossible to try and explain how damaging this is.

Even though some have tried to cut loose from that negativity and may have failed they end up feeling that their oppressors have been proven right,” she said. Through her album, which has 10 tracks, Ms Gee wants to encourage

Batswana  that God is with them regardless of how many times they  have tried and failed .

“Things can be, and will get better than they presently are,” she said. She is showing Batswana that “God is for us, we can and we will.” Ends