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Musician: Joseph Nsubuga
Location: London
Instruments: voice, guitar
Music: Ugandan / East Africa / Rumba / Kiganda
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
Listen to Joseph and fellow-refugees perform with
Eliza Carthy at
The 91Èȱ¬ of Black Websites |
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 ÌýÌýListen (8'07) to Joseph Nsubuga and Impala perform 'Byaffe' with Joseph on vocals and lead guitar, Betty Nsubuga on vocals and Jayesh on percussion.
ÌýÌýListen (8'00) to 'Mandela', performed by Joseph Nsubuga and his band, Impala.
ÌýÌýListen (2'55) to Joseph talk about his music.
'It's my dream to expose this melodious East African music to the widest possible audience.'
How I came to this music:
My Grandfather was the only musical member of my family before I came along. He played the endingdi which is a traditional East African harp. Then my brother and I took up music, so inspired were we by the sounds of Franco, Tabu Ley from the Congo and our own Ugandan musicians like Fred Masagazi and Kawalya.
 During Idi Amin's reign, Ugandan music was at its height. There were bands for every professional group - military, prison, police and even breweries. Most schools had a live band and as teenagers, we'd go to afternoon school dances. All the bands would compete against each other to build up the best reputation in order to attract girls from the most famous boarding schools in Kimpala.
In 1978, while I was still a student, I started singing with the Suzanna Band at The Suzanna Night club, Kimpala's most prestigious club. They liked my singing so much that they paid me a salary. With all this money, I left the study behind me and joined the band full time. I sang in Luganda, Swahili and a little bit of Congolese as we included Franco and Tabu Ley covers in our set. I dug the club music so much that I just took the traditional music for granted because those Kigana songs were all around us at every occasion from christenings and weddings to birthdays and deaths. Yet that 70's sound was fully rooted in those traditional rhythms.
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