THE INSPIRING STORY OF
BEBECOOL
Bebecool is a Ugandan music artist, singer. He started his
music career at the dawn of the millennium in the early 2000s.
He is a son to
the former Minister of local government and former presidential aspirant Jaberi
Bidandi Ssali.
He teamed up with Bobiwine
while still studying at Kitante High school and they formed a music crew that
lasted for a few years.
At that time, the duo managed to release some hit songs
that took over the airwaves of Ugandans and that was the time when Ugandans
managed to give some attention to Bebecool.
But after that, they fell apart and
each of them went their own ways. In those early years he started doing music
with a group called the Ogopa Djs from Kenya where they used to record the
songs with this Kenyan music group from Nairobi.
Those were the years when
Ugandans were listening to Congolese music that was popular at that time.
Along
with likes of chameleon Bebecool says that they used travel by bus to Nairobi
to record songs in Kenya.
He has been
pushing his music career with consistency and persistence up to today.
He later linked up with the likes of Wyre
from Kenya, Nazizi from Tanzania to form the East African Bashment crew which
was a music group that linked the three East African countries together
musically.
The music crew released hit songs that blazed the over the airwaves
of these countries, African continent and the rest.
Later the crew parted ways
as a result of the time it takes for them meet over for projects, basically
lack of convenience.
Bebecool later came back to Uganda and set up his own
music crew called Gagamel.
His music
crew has managed to maintain and keep the Bebecool brand alive by producing and
releasing hit songs year in year out.
He
has managed to win so many awards in Uganda among which are the Hipipo awards,
Pam awards and many others.
He was nominated for the Mama awards that were held
in South Africa for his song called Love you Everyday that hit the global
audience by storm.
During the 2016 presidential elections he led a group of
popular music artists in Uganda that recorded a song called Tubonganawe that
was used to drum support for the ruling party NRM and the sitting President
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
He says he did that as a way of showing appreciation
since there was a time when he was shot in a place called Centenary Park in
Kampala by Police and the person that paid his hospital bills was President
Museveni.
Due to the controversies that surround the awards in Uganda, Bebecool
has distanced himself from the awards in Uganda and has warned award organisers
not to include him in the nominations.
Bebecool has mentored and supported
upcoming music artists in Uganda among these are Irene Ntale who was once in
Swangz Avenue, Rema Namakula.
He continues to inspire more Ugandans into
joining the growing industry in Uganda.
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