Shaggy awed by Serena Hotel’s new look
Aug 06, 2008
RENOWNED Jamaican-American music star Shaggy was awed by the facelift given to Kampala Serena Hotel, formerly Nile Hotel.
By Jude Katende
RENOWNED Jamaican-American music star Shaggy was awed by the facelift given to Kampala Serena Hotel, formerly Nile Hotel.
“It is a pleasure to come back. I have seen many changes in this hotel where I did my first show. It was called Nile then, it has changed a lot,†he told journalists in Serena’s Achwa Room.
The Aga Khan Foundation bought the hotel about two years ago and gave it the facelift.
Shaggy, who said Ugandans like his songs and are a good crowd, arrived on Tuesday with a crew of 13.
Born Orville Richard Burrell, Shaggy will perform as a guest artiste at the finale of the Pilsner Lager Passa Passa promotion on Saturday at Lugogo Cricket Oval.
Since May, the concert sponsors, Pilsner Lager, have carried out countrywide dance competitions whose winners, Shaggy will crown.
The winners will also get a one-year dancing contract with the East African Breweries. The passa passa street dance originates from Jamaica.
Shaggy was scheduled to visit Spastica Uganda School for the Disabled, which he sponsors.
He was also scheduled to launch a community water works project on Kampala Road and visit Victoria Travel Hotel in Kansanga, where the 11 successful Passa passa dance groups are camping.
Shaggy, who said he came from the ghetto, thanked East African Breweries for the dance fest, saying it would improve the lives of those involved.
“If I wasn’t doing music, maybe I would be having dinner in jail. But now I am married to it and any woman who would like to get married to me will be called a mistress because music is my wife.â€
Harry Mwanje Pilsner brand manager said the dance groups were drawn from Mbarara, Malaba, Kibuye, Lira, Kitgum, Bulenga, Ntinda, Mubende, Jinja, Gulu and Arua.
Tickets for the Saturday show are sold at Shell fuel stations at sh25,000 and sh50,000.
RENOWNED Jamaican-American music star Shaggy was awed by the facelift given to Kampala Serena Hotel, formerly Nile Hotel.
“It is a pleasure to come back. I have seen many changes in this hotel where I did my first show. It was called Nile then, it has changed a lot,†he told journalists in Serena’s Achwa Room.
The Aga Khan Foundation bought the hotel about two years ago and gave it the facelift.
Shaggy, who said Ugandans like his songs and are a good crowd, arrived on Tuesday with a crew of 13.
Born Orville Richard Burrell, Shaggy will perform as a guest artiste at the finale of the Pilsner Lager Passa Passa promotion on Saturday at Lugogo Cricket Oval.
Since May, the concert sponsors, Pilsner Lager, have carried out countrywide dance competitions whose winners, Shaggy will crown.
The winners will also get a one-year dancing contract with the East African Breweries. The passa passa street dance originates from Jamaica.
Shaggy was scheduled to visit Spastica Uganda School for the Disabled, which he sponsors.
He was also scheduled to launch a community water works project on Kampala Road and visit Victoria Travel Hotel in Kansanga, where the 11 successful Passa passa dance groups are camping.
Shaggy, who said he came from the ghetto, thanked East African Breweries for the dance fest, saying it would improve the lives of those involved.
“If I wasn’t doing music, maybe I would be having dinner in jail. But now I am married to it and any woman who would like to get married to me will be called a mistress because music is my wife.â€
Harry Mwanje Pilsner brand manager said the dance groups were drawn from Mbarara, Malaba, Kibuye, Lira, Kitgum, Bulenga, Ntinda, Mubende, Jinja, Gulu and Arua.
Tickets for the Saturday show are sold at Shell fuel stations at sh25,000 and sh50,000.