City Beat fans dine with Phina

IT takes a giant to get the City Beat magazine editor, Kalungi Kabuye, to dance. The only Ugandan artist who made it happen was Phina “Masanyalaze” Mugerwa last Friday at the Spot After Club in Ntinda.

By Emmanuel Ssejjengo

IT takes a giant to get the City Beat magazine editor, Kalungi Kabuye, to dance. The only Ugandan artist who made it happen was Phina “Masanyalaze” Mugerwa last Friday at the Spot After Club in Ntinda.

It was during the City Beat readers’ party that Kubuye and Phina danced excitedly. That was after Phina had taught her fans what she does best – dance. Fauz Aliga learnt how to raise the shoulders and stiffen the legs to dance Calypso.

He was the luckiest winner, for he had already loaded sh100,000 MTN airtime for having written the best letter in the March edition of the magazine.

The men were mere learners, unlike Claire Beingana and Jacent Luswata, whose challenge to Phina’s Calypso dance left many awed.

For the reserved Barbie Mirembe, it was her first chance to “come out”. But going by the way she paid minute attention to the proceedings, it was evident that her first time will remain memorable for the rest of her life.

Sumaiah Kajjumba, a DJ with Fayaji mobile disco, had played Phina’s music for as long as the latter has been singing. But all the while, she had been praying that she meets the woman, whose music makes people dance uniformly. “Seeing the creator of the Calypso dance is like seeing God,” she exclaimed.

It was a very fine day out for Violet Nakisaliita who shot two birds with one stone. Her dream of meeting Phina and the City Beat team came true. She engaged both for quite a long time.

Phina, who revealed that she is a “fresher” at Makerere University Business School, showed her love for men.

When the ladies wondered why she only hugged men, she explained that she was “only feeling their volts”. The New Vision’s Dr. Love came on top with the highest voltage. But his excitement was short-lived as, for the first time, Phina revealed that she has a man in her life.

She kicked off her music career at Spot After when she used to perform during the Stars’ Night on Fridays.

The lucky City Beat readers were the first to hear some of the songs on her upcoming six-track Bampasudde album that she had just finished recording that evening.