It is Zawedde’s time to shine.
Mar 15, 2007
FEW years ago, you would have laughed if someone told you that local Pop’s next female sensation was Sarah Zawedde. But some time last year, she defiantly kicked down the industry’s doors and announced her arrival with her critically acclaimed debut album, Kambeere Naawe. <br>
By Vision Reporter
FEW years ago, you would have laughed if someone told you that local Pop’s next female sensation was Sarah Zawedde. But some time last year, she defiantly kicked down the industry’s doors and announced her arrival with her critically acclaimed debut album, Kambeere Naawe.
To date, of all the local female artistes’ songs, Kambeere Naawe is the most requested for on local FM radio shows. “Our research shows that Sarah is currently above all the other female artistes. Most of our listeners request for her song, Kambeere Naawe,†says Bills Mboijana, a programmes director and presenter on Dembe FM.
At the beginning of the year, there was a scramble between several Kampala music distributors for Zawedde’s debut seven-track album. Dick Productions eventually won the battle after the company paid Zawedde handsomely for the rights to distribute her album.
The CD subsequently hit the shelves on January 15, 2007.
Not bad for the 27-year-old girl who went from participating in the Capital FM Coca Cola Real Stars contest in 2002, to shinning as a back-up vocalist with Percussion Discussion Africa.
Indeed, just a few artistes have enjoyed the stratospheric rise to the top that Zawedde has. But that is exactly what one monster hit can do to an upcoming artiste’s career. And, according to Mboijana, Zawedde can continue ruling the airwaves if she comes up with another song as good as Kambeere Naawe.
We all remember that at the time when Juliana Kanyomozi was on everyone’s lips with her chartbusting Nabikoowa in 2005, she went ahead and won the PAM Award for the Best Female Artiste accolade. And so did Iryn Namubiru when she burned up charts with Nkuweeki a year later. These two were the most sought-after female artistes at concerts and corporate functions in the years 2005 and 2006 respectively.
That Silver Kyagulanyi penned Kanyomozi’s Nabikoowa; Namubiru’s Nkuweeki and now Zawedde’s Kambeere Naawe, therefore explains why Zawedde is following the same trend in 2007.
Zawedde reveals more insight on how she came up with Kambeere Naawe. She says: “Kyagulanyi not only wrote the song, but also took me through vocal drills before I hit the studios.â€
Yet with promises of a new album coming out soon and Ndi Mukazi, the second single off her album also steadily climbing radio charts, Zawedde shows no signs of slowing down.
FEW years ago, you would have laughed if someone told you that local Pop’s next female sensation was Sarah Zawedde. But some time last year, she defiantly kicked down the industry’s doors and announced her arrival with her critically acclaimed debut album, Kambeere Naawe.
To date, of all the local female artistes’ songs, Kambeere Naawe is the most requested for on local FM radio shows. “Our research shows that Sarah is currently above all the other female artistes. Most of our listeners request for her song, Kambeere Naawe,†says Bills Mboijana, a programmes director and presenter on Dembe FM.
At the beginning of the year, there was a scramble between several Kampala music distributors for Zawedde’s debut seven-track album. Dick Productions eventually won the battle after the company paid Zawedde handsomely for the rights to distribute her album.
The CD subsequently hit the shelves on January 15, 2007.
Not bad for the 27-year-old girl who went from participating in the Capital FM Coca Cola Real Stars contest in 2002, to shinning as a back-up vocalist with Percussion Discussion Africa.
Indeed, just a few artistes have enjoyed the stratospheric rise to the top that Zawedde has. But that is exactly what one monster hit can do to an upcoming artiste’s career. And, according to Mboijana, Zawedde can continue ruling the airwaves if she comes up with another song as good as Kambeere Naawe.
We all remember that at the time when Juliana Kanyomozi was on everyone’s lips with her chartbusting Nabikoowa in 2005, she went ahead and won the PAM Award for the Best Female Artiste accolade. And so did Iryn Namubiru when she burned up charts with Nkuweeki a year later. These two were the most sought-after female artistes at concerts and corporate functions in the years 2005 and 2006 respectively.
That Silver Kyagulanyi penned Kanyomozi’s Nabikoowa; Namubiru’s Nkuweeki and now Zawedde’s Kambeere Naawe, therefore explains why Zawedde is following the same trend in 2007.
Zawedde reveals more insight on how she came up with Kambeere Naawe. She says: “Kyagulanyi not only wrote the song, but also took me through vocal drills before I hit the studios.â€
Yet with promises of a new album coming out soon and Ndi Mukazi, the second single off her album also steadily climbing radio charts, Zawedde shows no signs of slowing down.