Rafsanjan Abbey Tatya
17 August 2007
Orlando deserves to be called a legend of Ugandan contemporary music... because he comes up with new music every year.
This year, the self-professed "most handsome man in Buganda" is back on the charts with an 11-track album titled, Ssi Nsonga (It' doesn't matter...)
The title track hits at people who enjoy gossiping about others people's backgrounds and fail to appreciate their current status.
In the song, Orlando says, the poverty, illiteracy and other difficulties that one goes through should not matter, what matters is how successful they have become.
And that could be a testimony enough to depict Orlando's maturity, however, he goes an extra step with the second track on the CD titled Siimba.
In Siimba, he advocates for afforestation, saying that there is great need for everyone who cuts down a tree to plant two.
The song is also against people who encroach on wetlands. The other songs include, Yes Sir, Cinderella, Sente, Gyira Tugende, Glass Etangaala, Youth, Ba Maama and the gospel track Bigenda.
Gyira Tugende and Glass Etangaala are both remixes of Orlando's old songs of similar titles. Youth is a roots reggae track encouraging the youth to use honesty and trustworthiness as the key to success in a competitive world.
And Ba Maama, which is in both Swahili and L uganda, underlines the value of women in their everybody life.
Orlando produced the album at his Fat Drums studios in Najjanankumbi and will hit the stores at the end of this month.
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