Baby Gloria sings, releases music video
Sep 30, 2004
It may not be uncommon for the entertainment world to unleash peculiar stunts time and again, but this particular one has gone a notch past the line.
By Nathan Kiwere
It may not be uncommon for the entertainment world to unleash peculiar stunts time and again, but this particular one has gone a notch past the line. This is neither fiction nor fantasy. Three-year old (precisely two-and-11-months) Gloria Senyonjo, has released a music video single.
Gloria, daughter of the celebrated gospel music maestro, Betty Nakibuuka Senyonjo, baffled the local showbiz industry in general and the gospel music genre in particular, when her bizarre creation was showcased at her mum’s grand launch some weeks ago at Grand Imperial hotel.
The project is an amalgamation of three tracks put in one because of her (Senyonjo’s) lack of detail in the renditions.
There is certainly some underhand adult influence in her ingenious accomplishments and this, obviously could be none other than her mum, Nakibuuka.
It all started several months ago when Senyonjo would pick a sheet of paper and sit at the dining table to scribble down some incoprehensible stuff. What would follow was singing rare tunes alone.
“At first, I would tear her papers and dump them in the dustbinâ€, says her equally puzzled mum.
“But this would set her crying each time I did it until I had to stopâ€.
First they (Nakibuuka and her husband), thought Senyonjo was mimicking someone else’s songs during her compositions entitled, Niwuye Mama and Twagala Tuyimbe.
But it was after the third composition entitled, Mummy mummy, Njagala Nkutwale, that the musically sensitive Nakibuuka realised that the gift in her little child was struggling to vent out of her. She then began to encourage her to sing. “Amazinglyâ€, Nakibuuka adds, “Gloria would ask me to play her new songs, while pointing at my CDs. I would tell her that she had to first record her music in the studio before it is played on a CDâ€.
Knowing that she couldn’t do this on her own, Nakibuuka took her to Dream studio, a leading recording joint in Kampala.
She then contracted Martin Sekku, a prolific gospel music artiste to do the tracks.
Upon watching her mum’s latest videos, Gloria was at it again on her begging spree for a video.
Weary of her demands, her father decided to contract Image Base to do her maiden single.
The entire do was shot at Didi’s World, a famous entertainment spot in Kampala. It was beefed up with a couple of Gloria’s close companions all of whom are below three years of age, including Kirabo Sekide, Tevin , Tasha and Rolanda as back-up vocalist.
The video is set to premier on WBS’ Kids Corner, UTV and Top TV beginning early this month. Her videos are already on the retail market at X-Zone International in Kampala.
Senyonjo is an ordinary child who has countless childish flaws. She likes singing, watching cartoons, playing, and yes, eating soil.
She accompanies most of her activities with music. Indeed, while I was interviewing her mum, she and Rolanda, were singing in their kitchen.
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It may not be uncommon for the entertainment world to unleash peculiar stunts time and again, but this particular one has gone a notch past the line. This is neither fiction nor fantasy. Three-year old (precisely two-and-11-months) Gloria Senyonjo, has released a music video single.
Gloria, daughter of the celebrated gospel music maestro, Betty Nakibuuka Senyonjo, baffled the local showbiz industry in general and the gospel music genre in particular, when her bizarre creation was showcased at her mum’s grand launch some weeks ago at Grand Imperial hotel.
The project is an amalgamation of three tracks put in one because of her (Senyonjo’s) lack of detail in the renditions.
There is certainly some underhand adult influence in her ingenious accomplishments and this, obviously could be none other than her mum, Nakibuuka.
It all started several months ago when Senyonjo would pick a sheet of paper and sit at the dining table to scribble down some incoprehensible stuff. What would follow was singing rare tunes alone.
“At first, I would tear her papers and dump them in the dustbinâ€, says her equally puzzled mum.
“But this would set her crying each time I did it until I had to stopâ€.
First they (Nakibuuka and her husband), thought Senyonjo was mimicking someone else’s songs during her compositions entitled, Niwuye Mama and Twagala Tuyimbe.
But it was after the third composition entitled, Mummy mummy, Njagala Nkutwale, that the musically sensitive Nakibuuka realised that the gift in her little child was struggling to vent out of her. She then began to encourage her to sing. “Amazinglyâ€, Nakibuuka adds, “Gloria would ask me to play her new songs, while pointing at my CDs. I would tell her that she had to first record her music in the studio before it is played on a CDâ€.
Knowing that she couldn’t do this on her own, Nakibuuka took her to Dream studio, a leading recording joint in Kampala.
She then contracted Martin Sekku, a prolific gospel music artiste to do the tracks.
Upon watching her mum’s latest videos, Gloria was at it again on her begging spree for a video.
Weary of her demands, her father decided to contract Image Base to do her maiden single.
The entire do was shot at Didi’s World, a famous entertainment spot in Kampala. It was beefed up with a couple of Gloria’s close companions all of whom are below three years of age, including Kirabo Sekide, Tevin , Tasha and Rolanda as back-up vocalist.
The video is set to premier on WBS’ Kids Corner, UTV and Top TV beginning early this month. Her videos are already on the retail market at X-Zone International in Kampala.
Senyonjo is an ordinary child who has countless childish flaws. She likes singing, watching cartoons, playing, and yes, eating soil.
She accompanies most of her activities with music. Indeed, while I was interviewing her mum, she and Rolanda, were singing in their kitchen.
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