Titi launch barely satisfactory
May 10, 2009
SHE cut her teeth singing with the now defunct Kads Band, reaching a feverish peak of her fame with such hit songs as Ssegwanga. <br>She left the band to start a solo career and has never looked back.
By Vision Reporter
SHE cut her teeth singing with the now defunct Kads Band, reaching a feverish peak of her fame with such hit songs as Ssegwanga.
She left the band to start a solo career and has never looked back.
Juggling music and radio, the Beat FM presenter has, over the years, won lots of fans from both careers. However, over the last few years, she has slowly slipped into oblivion and concentrated on her radio career.
Friday night at Club Obbligato did not only mark her comeback into music with the launch of her latest album, Kamulope, it also seemed like her official entry point to Bukedde FM, the co-sponsors of the event.
Although the emcees Bukedde FM’s Mukunja and Ruth Wanyanna praised Beat FM for nurturing her, they did not mince words that Titi now belongs to Embutikizzi. Co-sponsoring her launch was the icing on the cake.
The concert started at about 9:30pm, two-and-a-half hours after it was slated to begin because the organisers were waiting for the crowd to get bigger.
It never really did. So eventually, the curtain raisers started.
Titi graced the stage close to midnight. She first took her fans down memory lane in a medley of old favourites Ssegwanga, Makanika Wange, Nsonyiwa Faaza and Kankwesasuze before belting out recent releases such as Mukama Nzize.
She later had a long break while other artistes performed. It was not Titi’s night alone. Rachael Magoola used the opportunity to mend fences with her former employers, Afrigo Band, with whom she sang her runaway hit Obangaina that led to her self-imposed exile from the band for some years.
Other artistes who performed that night included Rebecca Jingo, Mathias Walukaga, Haruna Mubiru, Doreen Mutiibwa, Sarah Short and Katongole Omutongole.
Simply put, Katongole, who was recently elected Kampala International University’s guild president, should stick to his day job and leave singing to the professionals.
He simply cannot sing and the crowd, which booed the whole time he performed, told as much.
Yet a shameless Katongole insisted on telling the crowd he was planning an album launch in November even, when they screamed at him not to waste anymore of their time.
SHE cut her teeth singing with the now defunct Kads Band, reaching a feverish peak of her fame with such hit songs as Ssegwanga.
She left the band to start a solo career and has never looked back.
Juggling music and radio, the Beat FM presenter has, over the years, won lots of fans from both careers. However, over the last few years, she has slowly slipped into oblivion and concentrated on her radio career.
Friday night at Club Obbligato did not only mark her comeback into music with the launch of her latest album, Kamulope, it also seemed like her official entry point to Bukedde FM, the co-sponsors of the event.
Although the emcees Bukedde FM’s Mukunja and Ruth Wanyanna praised Beat FM for nurturing her, they did not mince words that Titi now belongs to Embutikizzi. Co-sponsoring her launch was the icing on the cake.
The concert started at about 9:30pm, two-and-a-half hours after it was slated to begin because the organisers were waiting for the crowd to get bigger.
It never really did. So eventually, the curtain raisers started.
Titi graced the stage close to midnight. She first took her fans down memory lane in a medley of old favourites Ssegwanga, Makanika Wange, Nsonyiwa Faaza and Kankwesasuze before belting out recent releases such as Mukama Nzize.
She later had a long break while other artistes performed. It was not Titi’s night alone. Rachael Magoola used the opportunity to mend fences with her former employers, Afrigo Band, with whom she sang her runaway hit Obangaina that led to her self-imposed exile from the band for some years.
Other artistes who performed that night included Rebecca Jingo, Mathias Walukaga, Haruna Mubiru, Doreen Mutiibwa, Sarah Short and Katongole Omutongole.
Simply put, Katongole, who was recently elected Kampala International University’s guild president, should stick to his day job and leave singing to the professionals.
He simply cannot sing and the crowd, which booed the whole time he performed, told as much.
Yet a shameless Katongole insisted on telling the crowd he was planning an album launch in November even, when they screamed at him not to waste anymore of their time.