Popular Music of Uganda

Due to the country turbulent political past, there was never be much time for flourishing pop music company until relative peace was restored in the late 80s. Before then, artists such as Afrigo Band, Philly Lutaaya and Elly Wamala were the few Uganda performances to have normal music achievement. Jimmy Katumba and his music orchestra the Ebonies were also famous during that period, particularly towards the 90s. The 90s saw the country’s love affair with Jamaican music start when musicians such as Ragga Dee, Shanks Dee and others were influenced by Jamaican musicians like Shabba Ranks. They introduced the Ragga music culture into the country and though they faced stiff contest from other African music patterns and artists at the time, ion especially Souykous from the Congo and Kwaito from the South Africa, they managed to create the foundation of the pop music company. But it was not still, until the 21^st century artists such as Chameleone appeared that a pop music scene really started to appear. By around 2007, there were already a series of artists learning different patterns of music and the part of western and Congolese/South African music had greatly reduced. Now, artists like Iryn Namubiru and Jamal are just a few of the many pop artists in the flourishing and vibrant pop music scene. The pop music duo of Radio and Weasel is known as the Goodlyfe Crew, it is popular within the Africa, being voted in the continental MTV Based awards as recently 2010.

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