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Pia Pounds
Tracy Kirabo, known professionally as Pia Pounds, is a Ugandan singer-songwriter and performer of the electronic dance and afrobeat music. Career Pia Pounds career started in 2011 when she released her first single ''Just the way you are'' featuring Ragga Dee while still in secondary school. She took a hiatus in music and returned to finish high school. She returned into music while she was a sophomore student at university in 2017. She was signed by Eddy Kenzo’s Big Talent Entertainment label in 2018. Under Big Talent, Pounds' biggest releases were Tubawe and Wawangula. She refused to renew her contract with the label and exited Big Talent Entertainment and started releasing her music as an independent artist in 2019. She then released songs like Byompa featuring Fik Fameica, Easy, and Delicious. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and lock-down around the world, Pounds released a love song titled Bintwala about missing the person she loves during the quaran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa: Due to the historical .... The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile, Nile basin and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate. It has a population of around 49 million, of which 8.5 million live in the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International University Of East Africa
International University of East Africa (IUEA) is a private for non-profit institution in Uganda, is a chartered University by the Uganda National Council for Higher Education (NCHE). In September 2022 the International University of East Africa has been approved for grant of a charter by the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE). A Charter is the highest license an institution of higher learning can attain from the regulators. And the charter can be granted only by the Head of State on the evidence that the university meets the requirements and standards of academic excellence set by the Uganda National Council for Higher Education and the Ministry of Education. Furthermore, according to section 103(a) of the Universities and other Tertiary Institutions Act of 2001 as amended; a chartered university means a university that is comparable to a public university. Uganda has more than 60 universities, of which about eight are public universities financed by the government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrobeat
Afrobeat is a Nigerian music genre that involves the combination of West African musical styles (such as traditional Yoruba music and highlife) and American funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.Grass, Randall F. "Fela AnikulaThe Art of an Afrobeat Rebel". ''The Drama Review: TDR''. MIT Press. 30: 131–148. The style was pioneered in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who is responsible for popularizing the style both within and outside Nigeria. Distinct from Afrobeat is Afrobeats – a sound originating in West Africa in the 21st century, one that takes in diverse influences and is an eclectic combination of genres such as hip hop, house, jùjú, ndombolo, R&B and soca. The two genres, though often conflated, are not the same. History Afrobeat was developed in Nigeria in the late 1960s by Fela Kuti who, with drummer Tony Allen, experimented with different c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Kenzo
Edrisah Musuuza, known professionally as Eddy Kenzo, is a Grammy Nominated Ugandan singer and music executive who is a founder and a member of Big Talent Entertainment. He received international attention after the release of his 2014 single, "Sitya Loss" and an accompanying viral video that featured the Ghetto Kids. In total, he has released 4 albums, including Roots in 2018 and most recently Made in Africa in 2021. Kenzo has also won numerous national and international awards, including a BET Award in 2015, a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award in 2018 and multiple All Africa Music Awards. In 2022, Kenzo was nominated for a Grammy Award for ''Best Global Performance'', for Gimme Love, (Matt B featuring Kenzo). The song's U.S. Afrobeats ''Billboard'' chart peak was in November 2022, when it hit number 36. Matt B and Kenzo performed, ''Gimme Love'' at the ''Eddy Kenzo Festival'' at Kololo Airstrip in Uganda to an audience of over 100,000, including Uganda's Prime Minister R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
