CONVERSATIONS WITH JOZY: SAMO KAGAATI

London-based promoter, Exposed Uganda Ent UK presents their first major event of the year Nva Kampala scheduled for the first May Bank Holiday weekend on 30th April 2016 at The Royal Regency Banqueting Hall in East London.  The music event will feature a line-up of young high-flying Ugandan artists including Winnie Nwangi, Apass, Nince Henry, Adam Mulwana, Samo Kagaati and Leah Habz. The hotly anticipated concert's promotion and publicity is being handled by JF Solutions marketing company and myself  ‘Lady Boss’ Jozy  will be hosting the night. Here I talked to Samo Kagaati one of Uganda's fastest rising artist making a name for himself and will be performing on the night so that my readers and London can get to know him a little bit better ahead of the show.

Background: I grew up in Rakai Kyotera and now live in Kampala, Uganda. You may know me from my hit song Mineral Water.

 



On his early days in music. I began my music journey at my village school and later joined a church. Music is my inspiration. I feel free whenever am recording a song and music if like food to my soul.  My music has a universal message and so I like to sing to people from all walks of life about real live issues.

NVA KAMPALA is my first international show. I was scouted by a local Ugandan promoter (I don't know if am allowed to say who) in December. I thought  it was a joke or a prank so I didn't tell anyone about it but it was true as later I was getting booked for a passport and visa. I am so happy I can’t believe I will be performing my music to a whole new audience in London. It is a dream come true.

Londoners can expect to be entertained. I sing and I dance and I plan to entertain. It’s what I do and so we are going to have a good time together.

Some of my hit songs include; Mineral water, Blue band ft Ziza Bafana, One day ft Yung Mulo, Zaabu,  and Money. I am working on some special music this year so you will hopefully be the first to hear it Jozy.

I promote my music using social media like Facebook,  Radio and TV, YouTube,   I have had great support from  DJ DinTv and other Djs and am so grateful for their support.

I am not signed to any music label and management and so all the work is handled by Team Samo Kagaati at the moment. It is not easy but the struggle goes on. I just want to work but hopefully soon things will change.

Collaboraions are very important in a sense that you share the platform with someone you admire. So far I have collaborated with amazing artists such as  Ziza Bafana (Blueband, Bend Over ,Dance), Yung Mulo (one day), King Saha (Mummy and Daddy), Pallaso (Nyongera)  and more recently we have just shot the video with Gravity (Kyekyo).
Advice to those starting out in music. Work hard, be loyal to your team and avoid conflicts with fellow artists. Remember why you are doing this.

 

Catch Samo Kaagati at Nva Kampala Concert

Performing live alongside A Pass,Winnie Nwagi, Nince Henry, Adam Mulwana and Lea Habz

Hosted by Ladyboss and organised by Exposed Uganda

Royal Regency

High Street North

London E12 8TH

 

SHOWERS JALLOH TO PERFORM LIVE AT KITENGE FESTIVAL UK

Kitenge Festival UK has announced Sierra Leone's rising star and humanitarian Showers Jalloh will perform at this year's African cultural event. Kitenge Festival UK aim is to unite, educate and promote African fashion, culture, business & the arts in the UK. The one day event is sponsored by Salabed and is a unique platform which showcases Africa’s valuable, distinctive and unique heritage in a carnival atmosphere whilst instilling a sense of African pride.

In its 4th year now, the event has grown exponentially and has become a major cultural event drawing local and international crowds. It is designed to appeal to influential figures, community leaders, movers and shakers, taste makers that take active roles in setting the mould for style, cultural trends and overall ingenuity within the African Community and the general public in the UK.

Born in Kamakwie, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Showers Jalloh is a talented musician with the gift of instantly touching people's hearts with his voice. This Sierra Leone Excellence Award-winning, multicultural artist has gigged as the front man for bands in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and UK.
He brings energy and passion to live music, a soulful singer and crowd pleaser, he always engages the audience. Showers is a joy to see on stage and he turns up the heat in any venue with his positive charisma. 

This brilliant performer has performed at Crawley Mela Festival, Canterbury Music Festival (headline act), South Bank Refugee week, Folkestone Around The World Music Festival, Westfield East and West London (Westfield Presents), Dover Music Festival (Headline Act), to name but few.

Showers loves to explore various facets of his voice in different genres of music. From afrobeats, reggae, soul and funk, to dance and gospel music. ''As a songwriter, I compose what I feel and I'm inspired  by different styles, people and environments. The message and emotion of each song are most important to me''. 
The young but experienced singer's lyrics are regularly enriched with uplifting and positive messages, and Showers is currently composing songs for his second EP which he hopes to release in 2016.
In 2013 he was nominated by MasterPeace to perform one of his songs called 'One Blood' at MasterPeace Music concert in Istanbul. The song is about world peace and unity, as a testimony of his experiences during the ten years of war in his country Sierra Leone. He is also part of Aruna Jalloh foundation, a charity set up by his family to support the less privileged in his home town Kamakwie the country as a whole. Aruna Jalloh foundation has supplied books for the Kamakwie library and holds a yearly cultural and education festival in the town to raise funds which are used to support the town and to educate its people in the context of their culture.

As an artist, Showers  feels it's his responsibility to inspire the young generation, so he joined a company called Child to Child where he is recording educational radio programmes for children in Kailaihun (Sierra Leone). The programmes are currently being broadcast in Kailahun and the children are loving it.

Showers took part in the campaign for peace in Sierra Leone, in 1999, through a group called 'Gospel Campaigners for Peace' and in 2009, he also took part in the campaign to emancipate a town in Southern Sierra Leone called 'Yenga' and its people. This town was still under the control of Guinean authorities even though the war was over for seven years.
''Being a singer, I think it’s my duty to use my talent to promote peace not just in my country but all over the world".

The Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have Showers Jalloh as he is a champion of peace not only in his native Sierra Leone but also to the rest of Africa. He is a special addition to the history of Kitenge Festival UK.

Tickets: https://shoobs.com/events/9093/4th-annual-kitenge-festival-uk

Kitenge Festival UK

25 June 2016, 10 – 6PM
Barking Football Club,
84 Lodge Avenue,
London RM8 2JR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little Prince George Charms President Obama

This evening The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry hosted the President and First Lady of United States for dinner at Kensington Palace - before dinner Prince George had the opportunity to meet the President and First Lady.

 

Just pure CUTNESS!

 

 

SAVE CAROL CANCER FUNDRAISING CAR WASH

Well wishers in Uganda are gearing up for the #SaveCarol cancer campaign this Saturday at Panamera to help raise funds to treat Carol the cancer patient who is only feeding through tubes and communicates by sign posts.
Carol's plight has touched many people on Facebook with many pledging their support to help her raise the funds needed for an operation. Goodluck Carol & here's to wishing you a speedy recovery.

Will you be there?

MEET BABY LUNA SIMONE HOLLYWOOD'S NEWEST BABY

Chrissy Teigen shared a first photo of her and John Legend's new baby girl Luna Simone -- just five days after giving birth. She posted the photo, along with the caption, “Hi my lulu!”

We are about to be blitzed by photos of baby Lulu.

Congrats to Chrissy And John!

LISETTE MIBO ANNOUNCED AS GUEST SPEAKER AT KITENGE FESTIVAL UK 2016

Kitenge Festival UK has announced Congolese Humanitarian and Model Lisette Mibo as a guest speaker at this year's cultural event. Kitenge Festival UK aim is to unite, educate and promote African fashion, culture, business & the arts in the UK. The one day event is sponsored by Salabed and is a unique platform which showcases Africa’s valuable, distinctive and unique heritage in a carnival atmosphere whilst instilling a sense of African pride. In its 4^th year now, the event has grown exponentially and has become a major cultural event drawing local and international crowds. It is designed to appeal to influential figures, community leaders, movers and shakers, taste makers that take active roles in setting the mould for style, cultural trends and overall ingenuity within the African Community and the general public in the UK.

Lisette Mibo is an award-winning model based in the United Kingdom. She was born in the city of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she lived until age 14. She moved to London in 2002 to get reunited with her family and to pursue her education. After obtaining a BA degree in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Middlesex in the year 2011, she decided to embark in an international modelling career. In that successful pursuit, Lisette's hard work has been rewarded with many recognitions and awards. She has been featured on the covers of many magazines, in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Among other magazines that have featured her are DivaScribe magazine (UK), Amina magazine (France), OhYes magazine (Ghana), Tropics Magazine (South Africa), Zen magazine (Nigeria), just to name a few. She received the Best Female Model Awards at the Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television Award (BEFFTA) in 2012, then at the Congolese Achievement Award in 2013. In early January 2016, at UWC Atlantic College, she gave a very well received TEDx Talk on the topic of "Living On the Edge" where, while recounting her journey from the Congo to the United Kingdom, she stressed on the necessity of always striving forward in spite of life's challenges. Moved by the urge to put people together, Lisette founded Passion for Motherland (PFM) in 2013, a Platform with the objective to raise funds and awareness intended to support existing organizations running empowering projects at grassroots level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For three consecutive years, through PFM, the Model turned Humanitarian had organised community showcases, which had brought together more than three hundred people in order to support emerging talents in the areas of Fashion, Music and Poetry.

In December 2015, however, she travelled back to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to pay her last respects to her grandmother, a woman who had played a key role in her life. Whilst there, she realized just how dreadful the situation of street children living in Kinshasa was, and felt a moral duty to intervene. She has, as a result, made a conscious decision to be part of the solution. And this decision has given birth to a new mission for Passion for Motherland as an organisation, which will commit to empower both street boys and girls in Kinshasa through education, skills acquisition, micro-economic loans, medical assistant, just to name a few. Lisette Mibo believes into the principle of sending the elevator down to bring more people up.

The Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have Lisette back again this year as a guest speaker after she helped host the event last year. She is doing amazing work in the Congo with her charity Passion for Motherland who better to tell us about the story of Africa?

Kitenge Festival UK

25^th June 2016, 10 – 6PM
Barking Football Club, 84 Lodge Avenue, London RM8 2JR

 

 

VALENTINE EUROPE YOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Valentine's fans across Europe rejoice. The phenomenal Afrobeats dancer has just released his European tour dates.

Get ready Europe.

⭕MAY 14 Zaragoza(Spain)
⭕May 21st Valencia
⭕June 4th Barcelona
⭕June 11th France

Any enquiry to attend and take part contact:
Tel:  +34631921545
Mobile: +447405151028 or +2348031902460
Email: info@kazrich.com

SALABED CARGO TO SPONSOR KITENGE FESTIVAL UK 2016

London’s premier African cultural event, Kitenge Festival UK will celebrate its 4th anniversary in style with Salabed signing up as a partner for the forthcoming celebrations on 25th June 2016 at the 2000 capacity Barking Football Club stadium. We are excited to be partnering with the most respected cargo business given its importance to the community and its reputation both nationally and globally. The tie-up will underline the growing importance of Kitenge Festival UK and its appeal on the global cultural calendar. We are now finalising the details of this summer’s program, which is sure to offer something for everyone especially for those who seek a great reason to relax, eat and be entertained during the all day festival. Visitors travel from within the UK and overseas for the festival which provides a real boost to all participating businesses. We are very proud to be supported by this outstanding organization. We hope that this is the start of a very long and happy partnership.

Kitenge Festival UK 2016
Barking Football Club
Date: 25 June 2016, 12 – 6PM
Email: info@kitengefestivaluk.com
Dress code upheld: Strictly KITENGE or African Print attire.

Exposed Uganda Takes on JF Solutions for Nva Kampala Concert

London-based promoter, Exposed Uganda Ent UK, has engaged the events, promotion and marketing team of JF Solutions for the promotion of their upcoming event Nva Kampala scheduled for the first May Bank Holiday weekend on 30th April 2016 at The Royal Regency Banqueting Hall in East London.
The music event will feature a line-up of young high-flying Ugandan artists including Winnie Nwangi, Apass, Nince Henry, Don MC, Samo Kagaati and Leah Habz with showbiz and fashion blogger and PR guru ‘Lady Boss’ Jozy hosting.  “We are delighted to be working with one of the longest serving Ugandan music promoters in UK especially with such great young talent on the line-up and are proud to have been entrusted with this role. It is a late start for us but we are hopeful that we will make the difference within the next few weeks,” is all that JF Solutions can say at this point.

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KLEO NAMIIRO TO PERFORM LIVE AT KITENGE FESTIVAL UK 2016

Afro Beats' latest phenomenon Kleo has been revealed as a headlining act at this year's Kitenge Festival UK. The festival in its 4th year aims to bridge cultural gaps and instil African pride will be held on the 25th June at Barking F.C Stadium. Organisers of the event at Jozyz Agency confirmed Kleo's participation and revealed that she will be the perfect addition to the festival's cross-cultural blended programme.

Born in Uganda Kleo moved to the United Kingdom at 8months. Starting off as a model, actor and dancer from a young age, the business and events management graduate became Africa's very own triple threat. In 2012 Kleo Senorita took the UK by surprise, as she became one of the finalists in the MOBO unsung competition. She released several singles and videos introducing sensational diversity, sexy elegance and superior lyrics to the world of female rappers. Focusing on the 90’s, her fashion and style continues to trend making Kleo her fashion icon.  Her first solo video was “I’m into you” followed by “ride the wave”, “come too far and “kiss me” ft Swagga Jones which all received rave reviews on Youtube. Now coming back from a 2 years break the 24 year old independent woman has promised a line of AFRICAN BANGERS.

Her unique choice of instrumental, sweet voice and eccentric fashion sense has been reincarnated. The Ugandan rock princess is back to rock the afrobeat scene with a hint of her native Luganda language and Swahili. Catch Kleo live on stage at Kitenge Festival UK 2016.

 

Kitenge Festival UK 2016
Barking Football Club,84 Lodge Ave,RM8 2JR.
Date: 25 June 2016, 12 – 6PM
Tickets: https://jozyzboutique.shoobs.com/
Dress code upheld: Strictly KITENGE or African Print attire.