Mulinde emerges from the shadows
Mariam Mulinde is back to prove that she is still worth our attention. The smooth-voiced crooner recently released Okwagala Okutuufu, her fourth album, which is already scaling up the local FM radio charts.
By Titus Serunjogi
Mariam Mulinde is back to prove that she is still worth our attention. The smooth-voiced crooner recently released Okwagala Okutuufu, her fourth album, which is already scaling up the local FM radio charts.
Okwagala Okutuufu comprises six songs, all done to dizzyingly melodic tunes that never fail to impress. In the title track, a woman asks her suitor to wait a little longer, while she mulls over his amorous proposals.
In the song, Mulinde’s voice overflows with a natural sweetness. The bass beat carries a very lively lilt and is punctuated by psychedelic jump-cuts. Just the kind of music that urges revellers to trip into dance.
But that is what fans have always done whenever Mulinde steps on stage.
From the six-year-old girl singing in a Catholic Church choir to the celebrity singer of the favourite valentine’s song Kinnange, Mulinde just keeps getting better as she ages. Even after two years in the shadows, she still reigns in the public consciousness. Baby Munnange is definitely the highlight of her new album. Listeners will be enchanted by the natural rhythmic quality in her voice.
Guba Mutima is perhaps the most infectiously breezy slice of Kidaandali (local pop) that we are likely to hear this year. Mulinde has revived the tradition of warm sensuous live pop.
Mulinde’s new songs are playing everywhere and it is little wonder that Dick Productions paid sh10m for the copyright. But the venture was worth it, with album sales quickly rising by the hundreds.
Mariam Mulinde is back to prove that she is still worth our attention. The smooth-voiced crooner recently released Okwagala Okutuufu, her fourth album, which is already scaling up the local FM radio charts.
Okwagala Okutuufu comprises six songs, all done to dizzyingly melodic tunes that never fail to impress. In the title track, a woman asks her suitor to wait a little longer, while she mulls over his amorous proposals.
In the song, Mulinde’s voice overflows with a natural sweetness. The bass beat carries a very lively lilt and is punctuated by psychedelic jump-cuts. Just the kind of music that urges revellers to trip into dance.
But that is what fans have always done whenever Mulinde steps on stage.
From the six-year-old girl singing in a Catholic Church choir to the celebrity singer of the favourite valentine’s song Kinnange, Mulinde just keeps getting better as she ages. Even after two years in the shadows, she still reigns in the public consciousness. Baby Munnange is definitely the highlight of her new album. Listeners will be enchanted by the natural rhythmic quality in her voice.
Guba Mutima is perhaps the most infectiously breezy slice of Kidaandali (local pop) that we are likely to hear this year. Mulinde has revived the tradition of warm sensuous live pop.
Mulinde’s new songs are playing everywhere and it is little wonder that Dick Productions paid sh10m for the copyright. But the venture was worth it, with album sales quickly rising by the hundreds.