August 19th, 2010
Things seem to be looking up for Ugandan Gospel music. First, the genre held the Viga awards gala at a successful, albeit low key event at the Victoria hall at the Kampala Serena Hotel. From what we’ve picked on the grapevine, organisers are looking to have a bigger more resonant event next year.
Now before the year even ends, continental pay TV giants DSTV have announced 5 new channels, two of them musical with one of them dedicated to gospel music of which 90% will be local gospel, 5% south african gospel and the rest, gospel music from the rest of Africa and elsewhere.
August 19th, 2010
LUCKY DUBE DEAD!!
South African Reggae musician Lucky Dube, 43, has been shot dead in the commercial capital Johannesburg.
Authorities say the singer was dropping off his son in a surburb when he was attacked by armed robbers on thursday evening.
Johannesburg police spokesperson Capt Cheryl Engelbrecht says they are still investigating the incident
August 19th, 2010
AGENZE!
Radio One morning show host and top honcho at Slice Entertainment Inc, publishers of exit entertainment guide and www.exitkampala.com Elvis Kalema Ntale, best known as RS Elvis is officially off the shelf.
The radio man was introduced by his girlfriend of 3 years Dierdre Kiima to her parents at a colurful multi cultural function in Seeta a few kilometres out of Kampala.
August 19th, 2010
One of the leading music stars in Nigeria, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2 Face, last Thursday night escaped death when a group of armed robbers in Lagos allegedly attacked and shot him more than five times in the leg.
August 19th, 2010
Christine Achom, an Auditor at audit firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers is the lucky winner of the fire engine red Toyota Platz car that Radio One FM90 put up for grabs in its 10th anniversary win-a-car promotion.
August 19th, 2010
The latest from our gossip service provider (gsp) is that multi Pam award winner and longtime member of Eagles band
Mesach Semakula is to quit the band he helped to form. Details on this story are on our Hot Gossip page with Rafshizzle
August 19th, 2010
BREAKING NEWS!!!
In news just in, maverick Ugandan singer Jose Chameleone has been nominated in the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs).
He once again becomes the first Ugandan to get nominated in the prestigious awards.
The MTV EMAs 2007 will take place on November 1, 2007 in Munich, Germany. Details are on our Hot Gossip page.
August 19th, 2010
FIRED, MARRIED AND HIRED!!
Sanyu FM’s breakfast show is minus one presenter after the gigantic Allan Kasujja (Mr. President) left for Nairobi’s Capital FM to take up the evening slot that was previously occupied by Mark Kwikiriza (the Kwicksta). He joins Seanice Kacungira who does breakfast on the same station and Brenda Z’Obbo who’s on afternoons at Classic FM as the other Ugandan Radio export to Nairobi.
August 19th, 2010
The most successful band to come out of Uganda, probably even East Africa, the legendary AFRIGO BAND have finally made that elusive US visit after a long time.
August 19th, 2010
The much anticipated Miss East Africa UK 2007 finally took place on 1st September at the prestigious Conway Hall, London. The event saw 21 year old Ugandan medical physics student Maureen Nyakaira steal the crown under a very stiff competition from contestants from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Maureen, who is a student at Cardiff University in Wales, expressed a mixed reaction to winning the crown. “I will remember this night for the rest of my life, at first I was shocked, Is it me really? But then that was my number they called,” she said.
