Folarin & Keziah: Thank you for this opportunity to reach fans on your platform. We both started performing music in church as teenagers. Even though we grew up in different parts of Nigeria, we both grew up in Christian homes and joined the choir as teenagers. After we got married, we started working on songwriting together and were opportune to grace the stage of churches in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area since 2013.

Folarin & Keziah: All the songs on our album, Relentless, are original songs. We wrote, arranged and produced all the tracks. Our musical roots go way back to traditional hymns and we included two hymns on the album: "Stand Amazed (How Marvellous)" on “Marvellous” and 'Draw Me Nearer" on “Deeper and Higher.” We always thought about doing hymns in a modern style and these gave us the opportunity to achieve that dream.

Folarin & Keziah: We didn’t quite have a title for the album before we started the project. After going through all the songs and praying about what to call the album, we had the impression that "Relentless" should be the title track. The song was birth on the floor of a stroke unit where Folarin works and based on reflecting on what God’s love really means. When we think about human love, it falls way short of the God kind of love. People change everyday and modern-day love is quite transactional. Unfortunately, it’s a guarantee that our mistakes will never be forgiven with our social media trend. It’s so good to know that God’s love is the standard. It’s forgiving, unconditional, eternal and most of all freely available to everyone.

It was also painstaking starting our journey as independent artists after moving countries twice from Nigeria to England and finally to Canada. We had to be relentless in our pursuit of our dream against all the odds stacked against us. We felt God’s relentless love pulling us through as we worked full-time jobs, one of us studied full-time, started a family and an independent label.

Folarin & Keziah: We are yet to establish an official band, but have a keyboardist and drummer we work with. We were able to put together a team to lay the rhythm section for all the tracks. As production progressed, we sourced other musicians to work with us on the album.

Folarin & Keziah: Our greatest influences include gospel artists like Andrea Crouch, Richard Smallwood, Ron Kenoly, Fred Hammond, John P Kee, Israel Houghton, Cece Winans, Yolanda Adams, Karen Clark Sheard. Recently, we have been inspired by artists like William McDowell, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Steffany Gretzinger, Maranda Curtis, Bethel Worship & Jesus Culture who are pioneering a new move of worship. We also admire artists like Sinach, Ntokozo Mbambo and Nathaniel Bassey who are taking the sounds of Africa to the world.

Folarin & Keziah: We initially recorded 30 songs out of which we picked the 14 tracks for this album. We have shorter songs, but we did not feel some of them belonged on this project. Typically, when we write songs, it’s aimed at live performances in church and not necessarily for a studio recording. We would be releasing some radio edits to tunes that become fan favorites.

Folarin & Keziah: It’s our prayer that God would use this album as a tool to usher in a wave of response to God’s love in the earth. People have become too familiar with the word "God" and are quite dismissive of the name "Jesus." We believe love demands a response and no one is more worthy of a response than the God we serve. We can’t even tell time without reference to Jesus. The modern calendar was designed after His death (AD), which means our times and seasons are ordered by Him. Relentless is our response to God’s love and we hope everyone who hears our album yields to God and let Him in.

Folarin & Keziah: We have received so much support in 2019 and we are very grateful. We started the company God Colors Media, Inc to produce, promote and publish music that proclaims the name of Jesus. We will be having some merch ready in the new year and part of our proceeds will be contributed to the charities we support. People can add us to their playlist on Spotify, Deezer or any other platform. We have been getting radio play in the US, Canada, France, Nigeria, Russia, Germany and the UK. Please, call your radio station and tell them to play our music. We are also available for live performances and look forward to touring in 2020. We look forward to invitations for camp meetings, youth conferences, festivals, convocations and concerts. People can also subscribe to our email through our website: www.FolarinandKeziah.com. Most of all, we covet your prayers. Pray for us that, in every way, we may prosper and enjoy good health, as our soul prospers (3 John 1:2), [and] that God will give us complete knowledge of His will... spiritual wisdom and understanding (Col 1:9), and that God will open a wide door of effective ministry for us (1 Cor 16:9).