Mosh eyeing 2005 Kora Awards
Feb 03, 2005
It is doubtless! The hottest 24-year old on the Ugandan music scene is none other than Mosh Sendi
By Titus Serunjogi
It is doubtless! The hottest 24-year old on the Ugandan music scene is none other than Mosh Sendi. Yes.
That devastatingly stylish fellow who sounds like the Jamaican ragga artist-Shaggy. Many remember him for performing with Dorothy Bukirwa and Sweet Kid at
the last PAM awards ceremony.
(Their song Nubian Queen was voted best Rhythms and Blues Single of 2004.) But indeed, Mosh has performed at countless parties, concerts, and street bashes. He is already booked for the world’s biggest Afro-Caribbean music festival to take place in the United Kingdom in March.
Currently, he is recording his second album. “I want to make a serious bid for the Kora Awards this year,†he says.
It is surprising that Mosh started performing barely seven years ago. He used to do karaoke at Club Texas with Jose Chameleon, Bebe Cool and Bobi Wine. His hard-core rap would send everybody prancing on the dance floor. Most female fans would run wild, screaming and fainting in front of their ‘hero’. It is a pity that Kampala had no digital recording studios at that time. Otherwise, Mosh’s first album should not have stayed on the shelves.
His first big break came in 2003 when he released Dance Carolina with Sweet Kid and Kefa, the former Coca-cola real star. Overnight, Mosh became a favourite on all dance floors and FM radio stations. Several Rhythms and Blues artistes clamoured for him to feature in their songs. So he did the dancehall remix of Michael Ross’ Senior Return. He also featured in I came to party with the Obsessions. Mosh did a track with DJ Moses of Angenoir Discotheque. And again, he teamed up with Kefa to release Better Man in August 2004.
Mosh indeed took East Africa by storm. He was invited for several concerts in Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam and Kigali. And back home, he has performed alongside visiting superstars like Sean Paul and Red San. He also made a stage debut as a Master of Ceremonies. And he enjoyed a short stint at WBS TV.
Mosh has gained an immense fan base because his songs are packed with stunning jams that would move anybody to dance.
The rhythms romp, snarl and dissolve into wavering pools of reverb. Mosh was inspired by Jamaican artistes Beanie Man and Shaggy. But unlike them, he refrains from using obscene lyrics. “I keep to the laws of the Muslim faith,†he says.
His new album, Asante, is already in the making. With it, Mosh hopes to make a more serious bid for the Kora awards.
He hopes to release it by February 18. It will contain eight electrifying dancehall songs about love, safe sex, AIDS and peace in northern Uganda. Asante smacks of the Afro-Caribbean orgies. And it proves that Mosh is Uganda’s closest replica of Shaggy.
It is doubtless! The hottest 24-year old on the Ugandan music scene is none other than Mosh Sendi. Yes.
That devastatingly stylish fellow who sounds like the Jamaican ragga artist-Shaggy. Many remember him for performing with Dorothy Bukirwa and Sweet Kid at
the last PAM awards ceremony.
(Their song Nubian Queen was voted best Rhythms and Blues Single of 2004.) But indeed, Mosh has performed at countless parties, concerts, and street bashes. He is already booked for the world’s biggest Afro-Caribbean music festival to take place in the United Kingdom in March.
Currently, he is recording his second album. “I want to make a serious bid for the Kora Awards this year,†he says.
It is surprising that Mosh started performing barely seven years ago. He used to do karaoke at Club Texas with Jose Chameleon, Bebe Cool and Bobi Wine. His hard-core rap would send everybody prancing on the dance floor. Most female fans would run wild, screaming and fainting in front of their ‘hero’. It is a pity that Kampala had no digital recording studios at that time. Otherwise, Mosh’s first album should not have stayed on the shelves.
His first big break came in 2003 when he released Dance Carolina with Sweet Kid and Kefa, the former Coca-cola real star. Overnight, Mosh became a favourite on all dance floors and FM radio stations. Several Rhythms and Blues artistes clamoured for him to feature in their songs. So he did the dancehall remix of Michael Ross’ Senior Return. He also featured in I came to party with the Obsessions. Mosh did a track with DJ Moses of Angenoir Discotheque. And again, he teamed up with Kefa to release Better Man in August 2004.
Mosh indeed took East Africa by storm. He was invited for several concerts in Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam and Kigali. And back home, he has performed alongside visiting superstars like Sean Paul and Red San. He also made a stage debut as a Master of Ceremonies. And he enjoyed a short stint at WBS TV.
Mosh has gained an immense fan base because his songs are packed with stunning jams that would move anybody to dance.
The rhythms romp, snarl and dissolve into wavering pools of reverb. Mosh was inspired by Jamaican artistes Beanie Man and Shaggy. But unlike them, he refrains from using obscene lyrics. “I keep to the laws of the Muslim faith,†he says.
His new album, Asante, is already in the making. With it, Mosh hopes to make a more serious bid for the Kora awards.
He hopes to release it by February 18. It will contain eight electrifying dancehall songs about love, safe sex, AIDS and peace in northern Uganda. Asante smacks of the Afro-Caribbean orgies. And it proves that Mosh is Uganda’s closest replica of Shaggy.