Tay Grin (Malawian Rapper) & Patience Phaka (Visual Artist) in conversation with Ren-D in studio.

Limbani Kalilani s a Malawian hip hop artist better known by his stage name Tay Grin. In 2009 Tay Grin founded an Entertainment & Event Promotion company, which helps to promote events across Malawi. The company is known as Black Rhyno Entertainment. Tay Grin has won numerous awards such as a Channel O music award, Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television and Arts (BEFFTA) award for Best International African, BEFFTA Star Award in the music category & more. He has performed at the annual Lake of Stars Music Festival. He also won the 2016 WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards Best Traditional Video award, with the Video Chipapapa featuring 2baba. He has also won numerous local awards like the Nyasa Music awards and the Urban Music People (UMP) in categories such as best live act, best video and best Male artist. In 2018, he won the UMP Fashion awards for Most Fashionable Celebrity. He has worked with many international artist such as Rick Ross. Patience Mmakolobe Phaka is a visual artist focusing on different mediums i.e. graphite pencil, polychrome colouring pencil, soft pastel, oil pastel and charcoal. She presents her solo exhibitions at various theaters accross South Africa i.e. “Don’t Be Beautiful”, at the Opera Theatre Marble Foyer. Phaka also challenges women’s perceptions of themselves as ‘beautiful’. She does this through a series of drawings and paintings depicting women who are entirely comfortable in their own ‘definition of amazing’. She says, “There is an eternity of things to be other than having ‘that’ perfect skin tone, perfect body, and hair.” #Sportainment