Elly wamala biography of donald

  • Elly Wamala was punctual, smartly attired, with music transcribed in notation and chord charts.
  • Elly Wamala was among the first Ugandan musicians to have their music in recorded format.
  • He was born in Mutundwe, near Kampala, to one of the first black teachers in Uganda called Semione Mwodi.

    • •

    Biography

    We don't have a wiki yearn this graphic designer. Do ready to react know party background message about that artist?

    Start representation wiki

    Similar Artists

    1. Bobi Wine

      2,038 listeners

    2. Paul Kafeero

      70 listeners

    3. Irene Ntale

      543 listeners

    4. David Lutalo

      485 listeners

    5. Kenneth Mugabi

      222 listeners

    6. Iryn Namubiru

      221 listeners

    7. King Saha

      652 listeners

    8. Bebe Cool

      1,853 listeners

    9. Sheebah

      1,620 listeners

    View all clank artists

    •

    He trained Elly Wamala

    By Joseph Batte

    No debates here. Elly Wamala is still a heartthrob crooner whose longevity in the fickle world of music is simply amazing. He has charmed thousands of fans since the golden 60s and is still a rocking experience in these roaring 2000s.

    However, one man he will always be grateful to for keeping him in the spotlight this long, is his former primary school teacher called Livingstone Semyano, whom The New Vision discovered, is now leads a quite life in the rolling hills of Bunamwaya-Ngobe in Wakiso District.

    The hunt for Semyano starts in the car-clogged New Taxi Park. I brave a bumptious ride through the potholes of Wankulukuku and Kitebi. Finally, with lungs choked with dust and the insides of the stomach badly shaken, the taxi deposits us in Bunamwaya trading centre.

    Another short boda boda ride drops us in the quiet neighbourhood of Ngobe. “There,” says the boda boda cyclist.

    “That is Mzee Semyano’s house,” he says, pointing at a tin-roofed building constructed in an old architectural style called Mugongo gwa mbwa, so nicknamed because its low, flat roof bears resemblance with a dog’s back!

    Though badly in need of a decent paint job, due to the constant battering from the strong gales and heavy tropical rainfall, Se

    •

    Elly Wamala’s music teacher clocks 100

    Music centenarian Making a career as a celebrity until an advanced age is no easy feat!

    But then again, living beyond the age of 90 is not easy, either.

    Livingstone Semyano, who is Elly Wamala’s teacher, has accomplished this, writes Joseph Batte

    Elly Wamala will go down the music folklore as one of the finest musicians Uganda has ever produced.

    He was a heartthrob crooner whose longevity in the fickle world of music was simply amazing.

    After creating Uganda’s first popular genre of music called kadongo kamu with Nabutono in 1957-58, he went on to charm thousands of fans in the golden 1960s.

    He was still a rocking experience in the roaring 2000s, earning himself the nickname, The Evergreen, from me, until he succumbed to cancer of the throat in 2003 at the age of 63. 

    The centenarian teacher

    What the world does not know is that there was a pillar who played a big role in shaping Wamala’s music. That pillar is Livingstone Semyano.

    Semyano was Wamala’s teacher at Mackay Memorial School in Nateete, Kampala.

    That pillar, Semyano, is still alive and he clocked 100 years on January 9.

    Search for Semyano

    When I board a Bunamwaya bound taxi with my photographer Godiver Asege, it is with a stra

  • elly wamala biography of donald