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Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Granddaughter of the late E.W. Oryema, I was born and raised in Uganda. As a little girl, my passion for culture and music started when the family fled into exile, shortly after my grandfather was murdered by a brutal military regime in 1977. Life at home was then only based on Bible studying and music.
In the following years to come I toured around as a traditional dancer with "Aumaling Heartbeat" before joining Namasagali College, until I moved to Germany. For the last 5 years I´ve been involved in different cultural projects in Germany. I´m not only in the studio for my projects, but also work as a backup vocalist for different artists." Labongo Lewich" is my first album and is out now. It´s a crossover of Northern Uganda traditinal Luo music and Western jazzypopmusic. 6/8 rythmes played into 4/4 time signature. One can hear that I´m truely keeping to my roots because there are a lot of traditional instruments running in the background as basics. I keep my vocals quite traditional and with the language I love most-Luo.
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http://www.myspace.com/gishaSingles:
Song: Shelter Björn Nyberg / Nyinomugisha
Music: Björn Nyberg
http://www.myspace.com/ojsession
Song: Anyira Acholi
Anyira acholi means "Acholi ladies" Acholi is a tribe and language from Northern Uganda where I come from. This song is about praising our ladies how hard working and strong we are.
Song: Apwoyi
"Apwoyi" means "thank you" This is a song a woman sings for her lover, hubby... Thank you for the love, joy, you bring me each and every single day. Because of you I walk with my head held high proud to be called somebody´s woman and I´ll not end up like some of the girls in our village, crying their eyes out cos their men have brought shame to their family name. ;)
Song: Labongo Lewich
"Labongo Lewich" Means "shameless" This is typical that more than 50% of our women raise their kids on their own, as Africa is filled with deadbeat father who aren´t interested in taking care of their own children. But wait till the kids grow up and if they end up being sucessful, guess who shows up at the door saying "am home"? Daddy dear shows up after 15 to 20 something years expecting everyone to welcome him as though he was just gone a an hour!!! All I can say is just get out you useless old man!