Ugandan
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Allan Toniks
Allan Toniks born Allan Ampaire is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He has worked and shared stages with several local and international artistes including the Goodlyfe Crew, P Square, General Ozzy (Zambia
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Angella Katatumba
Angella Franklin Keihongani Katatumba orn on 21 February 1989is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, philanthropist, diplomat and businesswoman.
Early life, education and background
Angella was in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the daughter of the Honorary ...
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Angela Kalule is a Ugandan musician and radio presenter.
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Aziz Azion
Aziz Mukasa, popularly known by his stage name Aziz Azion (pronounced aziːzá-ʐðɲ), is a Ugandan R&B singer-songwriter and musician. He was born Aziz Mukasa on 27 July 1986 in Fort Portal, Uganda and raised in Kampala where he studied up t ...
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Babaluku
Babaluku, born Silas Babaluku Balabyekkubo, is a Ugandan rapper, musician, producer, community youth activist and social entrepreneur who raps in Luganda. He is a member of the Bataka Squad
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Bataka Squad
Bataka Squad (formerly Bataka Underground) is a Ugandan hip hop group. The group was formed by Babaluku (a.k.a. Sniperous MC), Saba Saba aka Krazy Native and Big Poppa Momo MC. Founded in the mid-1990s, it is one of the earliest hip hop groups ...
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Bebe Cool
Bebe Cool (real name Moses Ssali; born 1 September 1977) is an African reggae and ragga musician from Uganda. He started his career around 1997 in Nairobi, Kenya, but moved back to his native country a few years later. Bebe Cool was one of ...
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Benon Mugumbya
Benon Mugumbya is a Ugandan musician and music producer. He was one half of the singing duo "Benon and Vamposs". He is the founder of Swangz Avenue.
Early life and education
Benon Mugumbya was born in 1981 to Benon Mugumbya and Florence Mugumbya. ...
Bobi Wine
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, is a Ugandan politician, singer, and actor. He is a former Member of Parliament for Kyadondo County East constituency in Wakiso District, in Uganda's Central Region. He also leads ...
Chosen Becky
Rebecca Kukiriza, commonly known as Chosen Becky, is a Ugandan singer, musician and songwriter.
Music career
Chosen Becky was discovered by Nick Products CEO Joseph Kilangwa to the world after she impressed him at a singing competition in Masa ...
Desire Luzinda
Desire Luzinda is a Ugandan US California-based recording, performing artiste, philanthropist, and founder of Desire Luzinda Foundation International (DLFI) established on June 5, 2021.
With influences from songbirds Mariah Carey and Whitney Ho ...
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DJ Shiru
DJ Shiru (born Kiberu Bashir) is a Ugandan disc jockey. He started his career at the age of 17 following his brother, a famous Dj Rota in Kampala, Uganda. Together with DJ Rota, DJ Shiru was one of the first Disc Jockeys to play music for int ...
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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, "S ...
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Elly Wamala
Elly Wamala (13 December 1935 – 22 August 2004) was a Ugandan musician. On 22 August 2004, he succumbed to throat cancer at Mulago Hospital. Wamala was one of Uganda's first musicians to release a recorded song and have it become a commercial ...
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Fik Fameica
Walukagga Shafik (born 10 January 1996), is a Ugandan rapper better known by his stage name Fik Fameica a.k.a. Fresh Bwoy. His debut came in 2015 with "Pistol" under the Black Man Town music label, led by a Ugandan music icon Geosteady. His later ...
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Fille Mutoni
Fille Mutoni (born 25 July 1991), is a Ugandan recording artist. She has collaborated with Radio and Weasel and Bruce Melodie from Rwanda, among others.
She had her first music concert in March 2018 at Golf course Hotel which was very succes ...
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Frank Mbalire
Frank Mbalire is a Ugandan musician and guitarist. He was one of the members of Afrigo Band.
Early life and education
Mbalire was born in Natete Kampala to Joseph Yawe and Dorotia Nambi.
Music
Mbalire joined Afrigo Band in the late 70s as a rhy ...
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Fred Masagazi
Fred Masagazi (1937–2009) was a Ugandan " Afrojazz" musician. He was the first Ugandan artist to have his song played on the BBC, with his song "Kolazizo", in 1963.
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Masagazi started his music career in 1955 as a singer in a Congolese ...
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Fresh Kid Uganda
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Patrick Sennyonjo (born July 1, 2012), popularly known as Fresh Kid UG, is a Ugandan musician and artist. He is majorly a rapper
Music career
Manager Francis claims to have found Fresh Kid ...
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Gabriel K
Gabriel Kakuru, professionally known as Gabriel K, is a Ugandan R&B/ Soul singer-songwriter and businessman. His debut studio album ''Done Waiting'' was released in May 2019 and his second album ''Love Ocean'' in February 2020.
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Giovanni Kiyingi
Giovanni Kiyingi, is a Ugandan folk singer-songwriter and world music artist. He is known for his skills as a multi-instrumentalist who plays the local Ugandan fiddle (endingidi), akogo, adungu, guitar, harmonica, flute, djembe, calabash, con ...
Gravity Omutujju
Gereson Wabuyi, known professionally as Gravity Omutujju, is a Ugandan rapper. He has collaborated with numerous other Ugandan musicians, including Eddy Kenzo
Early life and education
Gereson Wabuyi was born in 1993 in Nakulabye.
Career
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Halima Namakula
Halima Namakula (born January 1, 1960) is a Ugandan musician, actress, entrepreneur and humanitarian who in 2009 was nominated to represent Uganda in the Mrs. World beauty pageant.
Acting
Halima Namakula started her career as a stage actress wh ...
Irene Ntale
Irene Ntale (born 30 January 1989) is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She sings RnB, reggae, and acoustic soul.
Early life and education
Ntale was born on 30 January 1989 to George William Ntale and his wife. She started singing at s ...
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Iryn Namubiru
Irene Gladys Namubiru, also known as Iryn Namubiru, (born 13 December 1981) is a Ugandan female vocalist. She is a light-lyric, alto voiced, Afro-pop, recording and performing artist.
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Namubiru was born in the Central Region of Uga ...
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Isaiah Katumwa
Isaiah Katumwa is a Uganda
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Jackie Akello
Jackie Akello is a Uganda singer-songwriter and entrepreneur with a coffee brand Village Belle which she launched in 2017. She sings in Acholi, Luganda, Swahili, and English. She is known for her hit love ballad "Amari", the gospel hit "Samanya" ...
Janzi Band
Janzi Band, sometimes simply Janzi, is a Ugandan afro-fusion, contemporary and world music group formed on 27 August 2009 by Ssewa Ssewa and friends Abraham Sekasi, Jackson Kirya and Steven Oundo. The band has a hybrid repertoire of music, inc ...
Jimmy Katumba
Jimmy Katumba (1955 – 13 August 2006) was a Ugandan popular music singer. Starting out as a singer of gospel music in his early years, he rose to fame as the country's premier pop star from late-1970s to the 1990s. Jimmy Katumba helped shape pop ...
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Joanita Kawalya
Joanita Kawalya is a Ugandan musician and activist. She is a member of the Afrigo Band, the longest-lasting musical band in Uganda, which has been in continuous existence since 1975.
Early life and education
Kawalya was born to the late singer ...
John Blaq
John Blaq (born Kasadha John on 16 July 1996) is a Ugandan musician, songwriter & performing artist .
He is commonly known for his bass vocals and dancehall music accompanied with the introduction Uganda Certificate of Education">UCE and a UAC ...
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Judith Babirye
Judith Babirye is a Ugandan gospel musician and politician. She is a senior pastor at "New Life Deliverance Church", in Makindye Division, in the southeastern part of Kampala, Uganda's capital city.
She also served as the elected Member of Pa ...
Lilian Mbabazi
Lillian Mbabazi is a Rwandan- Ugandan recording artist and entertainer. She was born in Uganda to Rwandan Parents. According to a Ugandan publicist at Bryan Morel Publications, Lilian's music style is neo-soul associated with R&B Band tendenc ...
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Lydia Jazmine
Lydia Nabawanuka (born in Masaka in 1991) better known as Lydia Jazmine is a Ugandan female recording artist.
Background and education
She was born in Masaka in 1991. She attended Victoria Nile School for her elementary school. She then transf ...
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Lumix Da Don
Patrick Lumumba (February 21, 1978 – July 13, 2015), known professionally as Lumix Da Don, was a Ugandan rapper, record producer, founder and CEO of Valley Curve Recordz based in Ntinda, Kampala.
Lumix produced and recorded the greatest numbe ...
Paulo Kafeero
Paulo Kafeero born Paul Job Kafeero and musically or commonly known as Prince Job Paulo Kafeero(Golden boy of Africa)(12 July 1970 - 17 May 2007) was a Ugandan Afro-folk singer.Papa Cidy
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Philly Lutaaya
Philly Bongoley Lutaaya (19 October 1951 – 15 December 1989) was a Ugandan musician who was the first prominent Ugandan to give a human face to HIV/AIDS. He became a national hero because he was the first Ugandan to declare that he was HIV ...
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Peter Miles
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Producer Hannz
Hannington Muhumuza Wacha (born June 15, 1988), also simply known as Producer Hannz or Hannz Tactiq, is a Ugandan hip hop and Dancehall producer and DJ. He is the CEO of Hannz Records located in Makindye, Kampala. He has worked with most of Uganda ...
Rema Namakula
Rehema Namakula (born 24 April 1991), known professionally as Rema Namakula or simply Rema, is a Ugandan singer, songwriter and music producer.
Background and education
Rema was born in Lubaga Hospital, on 24 April 1991, to the late Hamida Nab ...
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Rachael Magoola
Rachael Magoola is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, dancer, and politician. She is one of the members of Afrigo Band. In the 2021 general election she was elected to Parliament, as the women's representative in Bugweri District, for the National ...
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Ragga Dee
Ragga Dee, born Daniel Kazibwe, is a Ugandan musician and politician. He contested for mayor of Kampala in the 2016 general elections. Currently, Ragga Dee serves as An Arts Administrator representing Art on the Private Sector Foundation Executive ...
Ruyonga
Ruyonga is a Ugandan musical artist of the hip hop and spoken word genres. He was one of the pioneering hip hop acts in Uganda, with his first group winning a nationwide music competition in 2000. He was picked by Rawkus Records as one of the top ...
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Sam Gombya
Sam Gombya is a Ugandan musician, radio presenter and social activist. He has taken part in the campaign against tobacco. He is married to fellow musician Sophie Gombya.
Early life and education
Sam Gombya went to Nabagereka Primary School and th ...
Ssewa Ssewa
James Ssewakiryanga Junior, professionally known as Ssewa Ssewa, is a Ugandan live performing musician, multi – instrumentalist, founder of Janzi Band and inventor of Janzi, a musical instrument.
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Son of a traditional drummer and a dance ...
Sophie Gombya
Sophie Gombya is a Uganda
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Sister Charity
Sister Charity (''Real name'' Kobutungi Charity) is a western Ugandan musical artist and TV personality. She presents the morning show (Sisimuka) on TV West in Mbarara, Uganda. She is popularly known for her 2001 hit song Grade. She sings mostly i ...
Suzan Kerunen
Suzan Kerunen (born 1979) is a Ugandan world music singer and songwriter who performs African contemporary music in the local Ugandan language of Alur-Jonam (her mother tongue) as well as in English, Swahili and other world languages. She is a ...
The Mith
''Mayanja Thomas'' also known as THE MITH, is a Ugandan Hip-hop artist, Songwriter, Podcaster and Entrepreneur known for his powerful lyricism and always pushing his love for Uganda. THE MITH broke onto the scene with easily the greatest Uganda ...
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Tshila
Tshila (born June 10, 1983) is a Ugandan singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Background
Tshila was born in Kampala, Uganda. She wasn't raised in a musical family and didn't study music at any of the schools she attended as a youn ...
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Undercover Brothers Ug
Undercover Brothers Ug also simply known as Undercover Brothers are a Ugandan music duo composed of guitarist and vocalist Jay K Mulungi and vocalist Timothy Kirya, whose music career sparked off when they won the auditions and represented Ugand ...
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Vampino
Vampino, born Elvis Kirya, is a Ugandan dance hall musician and actor who began his career in the early 2000s debuting his acting career in Nana Kagga's 2012 film, The life. He was one half of the duo "Benon and Vamposs." He is a brother to mus ...
Veronica Lugya (Vinka)
Nakiyingi Veronica Lugya (born June 28, 1993), professionally known as Vinka, is a Ugandan Musical artist, dancer, singer and songwriter. She is signed under Swangz Avenue and Sony Music entertainment.
Background and education
Vinka born in 1 ...
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Wilson Bugembe
Wilson Bugembe is a Ugandan gospel musician and pastor at "The Worship House" https://theworshiphouseug.org in Nansana Wakiso District, Uganda.
Early life and education
Bugembe was born in 1984 Masaka to Mr and Mrs Kirabira. Bugembe was orphaned ...
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GNL Zamba
GNL Zamba, born Ernest Nsimbi, (29 January 1986) is a hip hop artist in Uganda, credited with bringing rap and Lugaflow style of music to mainstream radio and other media in Uganda.
His stage name, GNL, is short for "Greatness With No Limits". ...
Ugandan
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Musicians
A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who ...