According to Mercy Masika, the gospel sector has grown by leaps and bounds. However, this was not the case for her when she entered the industry.
She was discouraged by the lack of money in the sector. She had been down and had considered giving up, she revealed in a studio interview with tv47 on Sifa Sunday Plus.
"You know when you taste and see that the Lord has been good, you have that option. If you have not tasted it properly, perhaps you have that option. I have never had that option. My only option is to do something other than public music.
There are times I would go five years without a song. Why? Because I'm feeling let me serve in Church. Let me sing in the worship team; that's enough. Who said I should record? "
She had been weighing whether God had called her to the ministry early in her career.
"That has always been the only option in my ministry, In my thinking perhaps I should stop public and go more into church."
on the question, does Gospel music pay she said,
"Oh, it does. I've got good money. And I get good money every month. Apart from things like Skiza, I think I'm one of the best paid but for a while, there was no return on investment when I said I thought I should give up on music publicly because you put in so much on the videos so much of time traveling, unaenda mahali unapewa elfu mbili and you are thinking hiyo hata si mafuta."
She added that at the time, people didn't value Gospel music. She said it was the norm for musicians to be paid 1,000. But that habit has changed, and now they are raking in money.
"At the beginning, it was hard, but God has a way of encouraging you especially if you are within his will to keep going," she said.
