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Edrisah Musuuza, alias “Eddy Kenzo” life a testimony. At the tender age of 4, Eddy lost his mother who was everything to him, and was forced to be a street kid for more than 13 years. Kenzo didn’t know his father’s whereabouts. As a homeless child he had to survive on the streets on his own. Music became his safe heaven since he didn’t know anyone from both sides of his family. He has gotten his breakthrough in music in the whole of East Africa. He Discovered his father who was working as a gate man, but he later died in 2011.

Also Kenzo aspired to be a football something that saw him join football at an early age. Musuuza later joined Masaka Locals FC’s camp at the age of 9. This led him to receiving a sports bursary enabled him join Lubiri Secondary School in Masaka although he did not finish school.

The Ugandan Musician separeted with his baby mama, Rema Namakula. He has two kids with Rema.

Music Career of Eddy Kenzo

Eddy Kenzo has gotten three breakthroughs in the music industry, his freshman hit was a song titled ‘Yanimba’ in 2008 in Uganda. He received international attention after the release of his 2014 single, Sitya Loss and an accompanying viral video that featured the Triplets Ghetto Kids. Sitya Loss got 19,325,035 views.

Below is a link to the Sitya Loss Video.

His song Stamina was used by politicians in 2011 during the Ugandan general elections campaigns. He has goes ahead and established Big Talent Entertainment record label. In addition his work has been greatly received something that has seen him perform in some of the most important functions in Africa. In January 2015, Kenzo performed at the opening ceremonies of Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea alongside Akon.

Awards

Further, he has continued to win many awards some of which include;

International Viewer’s choice award- BET Awards 2015

Best Collaboration – AFRIMA 2016

Most stylish Male celebrity – Abraynz Style and Fashon Awards 2016

Best Video of the year – African Entertainment Awards USA 2016

Kenzo is still doing good in his music career and his recent jam dubbed Raha is doing well just weeks after the release.

To watch Raha click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_GU8bIVyY

Life Outside Music

Also, he gone ahead and launched a charitable organization called the Eddy Kenzo Foundation. In this project he has brough on board, Ugandan footballers, Tony Mawejje and Vincent Kayizzi. It is aimed to help donate goods to nursing mothers and staff at the local Masaka hospital.

In conclusion, Kenzo is a testimony that it doesn’t matter where you come from, you can still make it.

King Kiba, the man with many talents, born Ali Saleh Kiba was born 26th November 1986 in Iringa, Tanzania to Tombwe Njere and Saleh Omari. He is the first of four children and is followed by Abdu Saleh Kiba, Zabibu Saleh Kiba and Abubakar Saleh Kiba. He is a recording artist and singer-songwriter. Alikiba is the director of Rockstar4000. Kiba became a household name in 2007, when he released the album Cinderella. The album broke record as the best selling album in East Africa. He is known for his hit songs Mwana, “Aje” , “Chekecha Cheketua” “Cinderella”, “Nakshi Mrembo”, “Usiniseme and Dushelele”. .He has also done a collaboration with R Kelly.

Family and Marriage

Alikiba has five children; Amiya Kiba, Chamy Kiba, Prince Sameer Kiba, Jmal and Keyaan. He is married Amina Khalef on April 19 2018. She hails from Kongowea in Mombasa, Kenya. Together with Amina they have one son named Keyaan.

Education

Alikiba attended Upanga Primary School in Dar es salaam before proceeding to secondary school. Although he has a passion for music, Alikiba developed interest in soccer. He is a left legged.

Also read; Alikiba finally makes his debut for Coastal Union FC five months after signing to the club (Photos)

Watch theAlikiba playing soccer below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1OIiC0vDw

Music Career of King Kiba

In 2004, he started pursuing a career as a songwriter and a music artist and wrote his first song, Maria. Later that year, Alikiba started working on his first album. In 2007 he released Cinderella Album. This was the album that introduced Alikiba to the music scene. The album’s top single, Cinderella was an instant hit and made it to number one on all of Tanzania’s music charts and was big enough. He didn’t stop here and in 2008 he released yet another album, Usiniseme and at this point, he was dominating the charts across East Africa and beyond. The album, Alikiba 4 Real was another piece. In the same year, Alikiba was nominated and won the Kilimanjaro Music Awards for Cinderella.

Click on the link below to watch Cinderella.

He has a couple of songs that have done so well in East Africa and Internationally. Some of the songs include,

Usiniseme, Mapenzi Yanarun Dunia, Chekecha Cheketua, Mwana and many more. In addition he has done more songs. AliKiba, the world famous singer, has sung some really lovely and beautiful songs. Ali Kiba– Seduce Me song has been trending since its release.

To watch seduce me click on the link below.

King Kiba has recently released a song dubbed Mbio. Further, it is a song that he claims to have written 10 years ago while he first visited Muscat Oman.

To watch the video click on the link below.

In addition Alikiba has given bongo music a great feel. His is some good work that has seen him travel the world. Finally, his music is loved in Kenyan and has a large fan base here.