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Uganda: Mayinja, Nantongo Rock City Beat Party
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New Vision (Kampala)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Emmanuel Ssejjengo
Kampala
THIS was a clash in more ways than one; a clash of the sexes, a clash of styles, a clash of fans, and a clash of movers of the music industry.
Winners of the City Beat and Club beer draw to party with PAM Awards Male Artist of the Year Ronald Mayinja and Female Artist of the Year Sophie Nantongo enjoyed themselves at the popular Club Pa Lui in Ntinda last Thursday.
They were treated to a crossfire between the two artists when Mayinja asked Nantongo to explain why she left the Eagles' Production.
She was frank in admitting that she quit over money issues. "I asked the manager to increase my pay from sh2,000 for a concert to at least sh5,000 that would pay for a boda boda. He was rude and just told me that the band does not pay artists," she said. In explanation, Mayinja said the band now pays artists better.
Mayinja and Nantongo both agreed that artists in Uganda have no managers. "They are businessmen," Mayinja declared. For Nantongo, her husband is the only real manager and to prove her point she gave him a peck.
Nantongo then promised to get bigger, by being the first female to take the Artist -of- the- year award. She also announced that she would soon start singing in English.
After Nantongo and Mayinja performed, some of the City Beat winners tried to prove they could sing just as well as them. First up was Grace Ssemambo, who sang Mayinja's Abalina Ssente. Her husband, Nile breweries' Shem Ssemambo, joined in but failed to get the notes and voice inflection right.
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The real contest between artists and fans was when Sharon Nankabirwa challenged Sophie Nantongo to perform Amaggwa.
Both artists explained the inspiration behind their hits: Amaggwa refers to love as a disease Nantongo would rather not suffer from, while Mayinja said he sang broadly about Africa because singing about Uganda in particular would be "a little bit rough."
The City Beat winners took home Nile Breweries goodies and Christopher Luyinda won MTN airtime worth sh100,000 for writing the best letter in the March issue of the magazine.
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