Over the years the number of talented people emerging out of Goa has been consistent and a constant. The number of football players and singers who have emerged have been too numerous to name here. Now another singer has emerged who has been nominated for the MTV Europe awards. Nathan Mendes also known as Tsumyoki is the new kid on the block. Nominated in the hip hop category he will learn of his fate in November.
The busy Tsumyoki was in New Delhi when he responded to queries from this journalist. Tsumyoki or Nathan Mendes said music runs in the family. His mother was a huge support along with his family. He said he tried music one day and what started off as a hobby turned out to be a very interesting thing to do which later turned into a prosperous career, which he said was just fantastic. The genre of music usually attracts you or and in his case hip hop was what attracted him. When asked what it was about the genre that tickled his fancy he said, “I like hip hop, it is raw, very unprotected, and you can be very real and talk about a lot of things and emotions in hip hop.” When asked about the important task of how he went about the task of writing lyrics and composing the music for a song he said, “Just come to me if the beat is good and the emotions are flowing I don’t know where it comes from , whatever comes to me I put it down.” Simply put. When asked what motivated him as a musician, he said he really did not now, when he wakes up every day, he feels he is living a wonderful life with an amazing job and it was all a very beautiful process and it was a life he lived to the absolute fullest and so there was, he said no shortage of motivation. When asked how he get nominated for the MTV Europe awards, he said he did not really have an idea. He said he was contacted by his management informing him that his song “Its Aight” had been picked up. He said, “They liked it and they thought it deserved a nomination.” When asked what his future plans were, he said he intended to keep releasing music, keep building the fan base which would then ensure, it all worked out. Since he was speaking from Delhi, when asked if this was a stopover during an All India tour, he said that was not the case. He said he had performed in Goa and then in Delhi but now he was in Delhi on some personal work and that was that. He said it was a beautiful process being on your meeting with fans and interacting with them. He was presently working on other music stuff. He was very clear in his mind when he said he was not a hip hop artist but a musician who played across genres. Tsumyoki said, “I am a musician, I do a lot of pop music and am also a hip hop artist. That’s how I would describe myself.” Every musician’s career lives on touring, when asked if he planned to go out on an international tour, he said he would love to do that but as of now nothing was in the offing. Asked how he would describe himself as an artist, he said he did not go so deep, he preferred to call himself a versatile artist who does a lot of genres and would prefer to leave it to his fans to describe him. When asked how one would be able to access his music, he said it was available on all the platforms and by typing in his name, his music would be available to listen to.
One can only hope Tsumyoki’s hopes and dreams come true in November and beyond.