Nandujja’s daughter holds her own
IT was an epoch-making event when the Sweden-based Ugandan singer, Sylvia Namutebi, launched her six-track album, Nguo Ya Africa (Africa’s attire). <br>
By Elvis Basudde
IT was an epoch-making event when the Sweden-based Ugandan singer, Sylvia Namutebi, launched her six-track album, Nguo Ya Africa (Africa’s attire).
Uniquely, this music extravaganza was in a boxing ring. Namutebi was the main entertainer when Ugandan boxers were supposed to take on Russian fighters on December 19.
Though the Russians did not turn up, the show went on. Namutebi, a daughter to Annet Nandujja, a traditional dancer and singer, received deafening cheers and applause from the audience when she leapt onto the stage.
In Nguo Ya Africa, Namutebi preaches unity for all Africans in the Diaspora. The other tracks on the album are Kyayaludde, Omwana, Nyongera ku Love and Wesige Mukama.
Namutebi first appeared on stage in 2005 when she sang for the Ugandan audience during the Independence Day celebrations in Stockholm. She has since rubbed shoulders with musical giants like Maddox Ssematimba, Henry Katamba and Dennis Rockla.
She wrote her first song when she was seven years old and by the age of nine, was wooing audiences with her mother.
“My early exposure to music made me fall in love with performing arts,†Namutebi says. She joined The Planets, her mother’s group, when she was in S.1.
Apart from Sweden, she has also performed in the Netherlands, Germany, the US and London, where she sang at the Uganda Achievement Awards recently.
IT was an epoch-making event when the Sweden-based Ugandan singer, Sylvia Namutebi, launched her six-track album, Nguo Ya Africa (Africa’s attire).
Uniquely, this music extravaganza was in a boxing ring. Namutebi was the main entertainer when Ugandan boxers were supposed to take on Russian fighters on December 19.
Though the Russians did not turn up, the show went on. Namutebi, a daughter to Annet Nandujja, a traditional dancer and singer, received deafening cheers and applause from the audience when she leapt onto the stage.
In Nguo Ya Africa, Namutebi preaches unity for all Africans in the Diaspora. The other tracks on the album are Kyayaludde, Omwana, Nyongera ku Love and Wesige Mukama.
Namutebi first appeared on stage in 2005 when she sang for the Ugandan audience during the Independence Day celebrations in Stockholm. She has since rubbed shoulders with musical giants like Maddox Ssematimba, Henry Katamba and Dennis Rockla.
She wrote her first song when she was seven years old and by the age of nine, was wooing audiences with her mother.
“My early exposure to music made me fall in love with performing arts,†Namutebi says. She joined The Planets, her mother’s group, when she was in S.1.
Apart from Sweden, she has also performed in the Netherlands, Germany, the US and London, where she sang at the Uganda Achievement Awards recently.