Dancer Roge refutes elopement story
Feb 02, 2006
Roge Banya, the lanky and lissome one-man dance machine-turned-singer, has refuted recent tabloid reports that he had turned his back on the mother of his child and eloped with a well-heeled Ugandan lady in Japan.
By Sebidde Kiryowa
Roge Banya, the lanky and lissome one-man dance machine-turned-singer, has refuted recent tabloid reports that he had turned his back on the mother of his child and eloped with a well-heeled Ugandan lady in Japan.
Speculation has also since been rife that he has since taken on a kyeyo job.
The dancer-cum-singer left a few weeks after the launch of his first album Tag of War at Sabrina’s Pub, Kampala.
Popular artistes, Bobi Wine and The Firebase Crew, Chameleone, Halima Namakula and Silivia Kyansuti, graced the function, which was scoffed at by many a media pundits.
However, Roge, who is currently hovering all over Asia, denies all this as a mere fabrication. “My mission is my music. I am neither married nor did I come here with anybody from Uganda. I’m certainly not doing kyeyo. My sojourn is all about promoting my career.
I sacrificed quite a lot to get here. I didn’t even have a sponsor. I’m not about to lose my focus,†he said in a telephone interview, recently.
Roge’s ‘focus’ would include Roge Extra Dancers, an all-girl Japanese dance group that backs him up. Together with this group, he has so far shot a video for Mukwano, one of the songs on his latest album. He claims he shot the video in Sweden, Holland and Japan. He released it on October 24, 2005.
Roge is also working on a new song, Tupakase (Let’s work hard), which he says talks about his adventures in Asia and working hard.
Roge Banya, the lanky and lissome one-man dance machine-turned-singer, has refuted recent tabloid reports that he had turned his back on the mother of his child and eloped with a well-heeled Ugandan lady in Japan.
Speculation has also since been rife that he has since taken on a kyeyo job.
The dancer-cum-singer left a few weeks after the launch of his first album Tag of War at Sabrina’s Pub, Kampala.
Popular artistes, Bobi Wine and The Firebase Crew, Chameleone, Halima Namakula and Silivia Kyansuti, graced the function, which was scoffed at by many a media pundits.
However, Roge, who is currently hovering all over Asia, denies all this as a mere fabrication. “My mission is my music. I am neither married nor did I come here with anybody from Uganda. I’m certainly not doing kyeyo. My sojourn is all about promoting my career.
I sacrificed quite a lot to get here. I didn’t even have a sponsor. I’m not about to lose my focus,†he said in a telephone interview, recently.
Roge’s ‘focus’ would include Roge Extra Dancers, an all-girl Japanese dance group that backs him up. Together with this group, he has so far shot a video for Mukwano, one of the songs on his latest album. He claims he shot the video in Sweden, Holland and Japan. He released it on October 24, 2005.
Roge is also working on a new song, Tupakase (Let’s work hard), which he says talks about his adventures in Asia and working hard.