Gospel Music of Uganda

The early gospel music in Uganda was modeled primarily after the praise and worship music practice by church choirs and ensemble, specially the Pentecostal/Born Again movement, locally known as Balokolre. Musicians like Fiona Muskasa during in the mid-90s were responsible for taking praise and worship music out of the churches and onto the streets. Because of the influence of the Soukous music at the time, this early gospel had a Soukous beat. Limit X was other gospel orchestras that attained fame during in the 90s. Just after the beginning if the century, the patterns in gospel became more different with different orchestras such as First Love and Sauti adding to the urban sound formed by Limit X. Others such as the father Musaala and George Okudi had surprising hits on the radio tour and internationally. Though, this was with the turning point of Judith Babirye circa 2007 that gospel began to have a popular role on the music industry. Babirye, whose music was like the Fiona Mukasam was an example hit and her song known as Beera Nange which was among the chants of the year in its year of production, she was accompanied by Wilson Bugembe, another artist who was readily held by the listening public with his chants becoming national hits, cutting throughout all demographics. Currently, they have been consolidated by different current musicians bridging different genres.

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