Will sister slave do it again?
FEW people can fail to recall the days when Sister Slave dazzled town with her [performances. Besides dancing outrageously alongside Ragga Dee and Messe in the 1990s, Sister Slave was also a curtain raiser for Shaggy, Chaka Demus and Buju Banton when they came to Uganda.
By Titus Serunjogi
FEW people can fail to recall the days when Sister Slave dazzled town with her [performances. Besides dancing outrageously alongside Ragga Dee and Messe in the 1990s, Sister Slave was also a curtain raiser for Shaggy, Chaka Demus and Buju Banton when they came to Uganda.
She later coupled up with Titan Takuba in the Gents to produce Cinderella, one of the few old school hits that Kampala can boast of.
But all that happened about six years ago, before Sister Slave (aka Lillian Kyeyune) went to the United Kingdom in 2001.
However, last month, she jetted into the country and two days later, FM radios were playing Musonso and Komawo, her new singles.
During a recent interview, Sister Slave said: “I have sung in the UK and Portugal for the past six years, but now I want to come back home. I hear a lot about the good life musicians are enjoying here and I feel excited to be joining in the boom.â€
But one just cannot help wondering; can Sister Slave once again prove herself relevant to the local music scene? Many of her stage contemporaries, except Ragga Dee, have long thrown in the towel.
However, Sister Slave recently said she is hell-bent on setting herself up as the Best Female artiste in the land. To prove her point, she released two songs onto the radios soon after she jetted into the country.
Then she spent the next weeks locked inside the Dee’s Studios churning out new songs that would hopefully bust the local radio charts.
Slave’s song, Musonso, is about a man who encroaches on his wife’s money. Many African women can relate to the lyrics. Musonso contains up-tempo dancehall vibes. The song is already getting tremendous airplay on Radio Simba and Dembe FM.
Sister Slave also features alongside Sassa Angura in Komawo.
The song captures the essence of all the nights that Slave spent performing on the stage as a teenager. The shouts and gasps in the song clearly show what Komawo really means.
Sassa smoothes Sister Slave’s harsh vibes and thus gives the song a more sentimental feel.
However, she is not entirely ignorant about smooth romantic vocals. In fact, it is her more soulful songs that are bound to cast her into the collective consciousness once again.
So, in her Nwyeza Nze, she ditches the harsh Ragga vibes and goes for zouk. Nwyeza Nze is all about relaxing and having a good time with a spouse. The song is done to a feel-good driving rhythm that keeps winding up and dropping down.
Wonder how Sister Slave can switch from Ragga to Zouk with ease? “I have always strived to be versatile in my music.
Besides working as housing finance consultant in Europe, Sister Slave has also been making a fortune out of singing at jazz pubs, weddings and corporate evenings.
Sister Slave is now shooting the videos for Musonso and her other new tracks. Her CD will hit the stores anytime soon.
FEW people can fail to recall the days when Sister Slave dazzled town with her [performances. Besides dancing outrageously alongside Ragga Dee and Messe in the 1990s, Sister Slave was also a curtain raiser for Shaggy, Chaka Demus and Buju Banton when they came to Uganda.
She later coupled up with Titan Takuba in the Gents to produce Cinderella, one of the few old school hits that Kampala can boast of.
But all that happened about six years ago, before Sister Slave (aka Lillian Kyeyune) went to the United Kingdom in 2001.
However, last month, she jetted into the country and two days later, FM radios were playing Musonso and Komawo, her new singles.
During a recent interview, Sister Slave said: “I have sung in the UK and Portugal for the past six years, but now I want to come back home. I hear a lot about the good life musicians are enjoying here and I feel excited to be joining in the boom.â€
But one just cannot help wondering; can Sister Slave once again prove herself relevant to the local music scene? Many of her stage contemporaries, except Ragga Dee, have long thrown in the towel.
However, Sister Slave recently said she is hell-bent on setting herself up as the Best Female artiste in the land. To prove her point, she released two songs onto the radios soon after she jetted into the country.
Then she spent the next weeks locked inside the Dee’s Studios churning out new songs that would hopefully bust the local radio charts.
Slave’s song, Musonso, is about a man who encroaches on his wife’s money. Many African women can relate to the lyrics. Musonso contains up-tempo dancehall vibes. The song is already getting tremendous airplay on Radio Simba and Dembe FM.
Sister Slave also features alongside Sassa Angura in Komawo.
The song captures the essence of all the nights that Slave spent performing on the stage as a teenager. The shouts and gasps in the song clearly show what Komawo really means.
Sassa smoothes Sister Slave’s harsh vibes and thus gives the song a more sentimental feel.
However, she is not entirely ignorant about smooth romantic vocals. In fact, it is her more soulful songs that are bound to cast her into the collective consciousness once again.
So, in her Nwyeza Nze, she ditches the harsh Ragga vibes and goes for zouk. Nwyeza Nze is all about relaxing and having a good time with a spouse. The song is done to a feel-good driving rhythm that keeps winding up and dropping down.
Wonder how Sister Slave can switch from Ragga to Zouk with ease? “I have always strived to be versatile in my music.
Besides working as housing finance consultant in Europe, Sister Slave has also been making a fortune out of singing at jazz pubs, weddings and corporate evenings.
Sister Slave is now shooting the videos for Musonso and her other new tracks. Her CD will hit the stores anytime soon.