Kezz shares her first experience at the mosque since converting to Islam
By Valerian Khakayi, July 19, 2025Popular gospel disc jockey (DJ) and musician Keziah Jerono, alias DJ Kezz, now Zziah, has shared her first experience at the mosque since converting to Islam
In a heartfelt social media post, she described the experience as deeply comforting, almost like coming home. For Kezz, stepping into the mosque for the first time carried profound significance.
“Juma’ah Mubarak. Today was my First time at the mosque, and somehow, it felt like coming home. Alhamdulillah,” she said.
Conversion
On Friday, July 11, 2025, she announced her conversion to Islam. She also shared her new Muslim name, Zziah, and revealed her daughter’s name as Liyana, following their spiritual journey together
“Alhamdulillah. We’ve taken Our Shahada. This is the beginning of the most beautiful chapter yet!,” she announced.
“I am now a Muslim.”
Kezz, after announcing her newfound spiritual path, expressed that the decision was the culmination of years of spiritual exploration, which she says did not start in church.
“My walk with God didn’t begin in church, and it didn’t end there. I’ve been walking a spiritual journey for years, asking hard questions, loving Jesus, studying faiths, and letting God speak in unexpected places,” she said.
“My choice to follow the Islamic path isn’t sudden, it’s sacred. It’s honest. It’s mine. I honour where I’ve been, and I honour where I’m going. Faith isn’t a box. It’s a calling. And I still answer.”
Until her conversion, DJ Kezz was a strong member of the SDA church, a member of the Msanii Music Group Choir and a gospel DJ.
Spiritual journey
Kezz’s spiritual journey has been marked by resilience. When she was 17, she endured a traumatic experience that ultimately led to her excommunication from the SDA Church.
Speaking during an interview with Oga Obinna on August 26, 2024, DJ Kezz, while narrating her spiritual journey, revealed that she was excommunicated from the church after getting pregnant.
“I was 17 years old when I got assąulted and got pregnant, it was an unfortunate insistence, first time going to a club in Eldoret and I was druggēd and then assaulted and I got pregnant. I didn’t tell anybody,” DJ Kezz narrated.
“When finally everybody found out, I don’t blame them you know our church has some regulations. We have very strict rules and it is worse when you go to rural areas. It was worse when I finally realized it was not only the church but also my friends and the community,” she narrated.
“I got ex-communicated and it made me so mad at God which was not even His fault, but how I was treated made me feel so bad. I stopped going to church in 2017 and that’s how I ended up being a club DJ.”
She further stated that in 2020, she embarked on a transformative journey to reconnect with her faith, adding that the lockdown period provided an opportunity for her to use her extraordinary talent as a DJ to share the message of God with the world.