Joshua Baraka is a Ugandan singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and music artist who was born in the Kampala suburb of Kawempe in the early 1990s.
Image credit:Joshua Baraka photo by Safi.
Joshua Baraka attended Kitante primary school for his primary school education and after completing his primary school education, he joined Makerere College School for his Ordinary level of education.
After completing his Ordinary level of education he joined Mengo Secondary School for his Advanced levels of education where he pursued a science subject combination of Physics, Chemistry and Biology but unfortunately he performed poorly in his final exams and he had to ponder his next move in terms of the career he was to pursue.
Joshua Baraka developed a strong interest in music production while still in his Advanced level of education.
He gained good skills of playing the piano.
After completing his Advanced level of education, Joshua Baraka tried to forge a career in the nursing profession but later switched to architecture but still things did not work out well for him and therefore he decided to focus his attention on music.
Although, initially he feared the idea of performing on stage infront of fans but a friend of his convinced him that it was a good idea to go up onstage and perform and that he had the ability.
Joshua Baraka's first gig was at a wedding where he performed a rendition of three songs and after that gig, he was paid 800,000 Ugandan shillings and this gave him the hope that he can actually do music professionally and also earn a living from it.
This was now the point at which he decided to fully focus on the music business fully and therefore there was no need for him to go back to school.
Joshua Baraka said that he decided to sing in English because there are already very many music artists singing in Luganda and therefore in order to stand out of the crowd, he decided to do his music in English.
He also added that he could not pronounce words properly while singing in Luganda.
The song that brought Joshua Baraka into the limelight is called Tewekweka which comes from his album called Baby steps.
Joshua Baraka said that he worked with artists like Apass and Azawi and some of these songs will be out.
Joshua Baraka is an inspiration to all the upcoming music artists and also youths out there who would like to join the music industry.
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