By Reporter

With new talent, comedians and comedy groups emerging, the latest addition is the Ba Sekimpi family. The comedy duo today at Club Obligato made intentions to venture into commercial and competitive comedy. The duo of Sali Shafad, Tamale Hillary are signed under Nationz Connect Media.

The comedians who have been working together for the past two years have pledged to work hard and stick together further.

The comedy duo joins others like Maulana and Reign, MadRat and Chiko and many other duos who have shone for many years.

By Our Reporter

National Theatre was on Friday evening peppered with laughter as the queens of comedy took over the stage for the second edition of the Arise Woman Comedy Jam.

Hosted by Akite Agnes, this edition featured the crème de la crème of comediennes like Anne Kansiime, Titin Gladys, Maggie da Bwaiserian, Richmouth and the Fun Factory ladies, who cracked jokes about different real-life experiences; sending the audience into thunderous applause and laughter.

Held in the spirit of the women’s week, the comedy jam exceeded expectations as it celebrated and glorified women in the comedy industry, perfectly aligning to the theme of the show, “Arise Woman.”

The crowd favourite was Titin Gladys’ set where she progressively told stories of her daily-life woes that culminated with an exciting twist on her relationship troubles that sent the audience laughing nonstop.

The night ended on a high with Anne Kansiime firing up the audience with her jokes and comic antics as revelers sipped on Tusker Malt Lager while munching away at popcorn spread out on trays around the dimly lit auditorium.

Innocent Kawooya, the CEO HiPipo

By Our Reporter

The HiPipo Music Awards 2020 edition has been postponed. The development was announced by Innocent Kawooya, the CEO of HiPipo on Friday.

According to Kawooya, the awards were postponed because one of their key suppliers could not deliver on their obligations.

“The award ceremony has been postponed owing to unexpected happenings that have made a key supplier unable to complete and later on ship major project necessities on time,” said Innocent Kawooya in a statement to award stakeholders.

The award ceremony which was slated for March 14, 2020, at the Kampala Serena Hotel has since been pushed to an indefinite time.

“Nonetheless, voting in all the categories continues. A new date will be communicated at the soonest.” He added.

Now in their 9th edition, the HiPipo Music Awards are aimed at recognizing and celebrating music excellence across the African continent.

By Stuart G-Khast

Producer Rinex has withdrawn from Zzina awards after being nominated in the best audio producer category.

The power records producer cites that he is giving platform for younger producers to shine and therefore will not be apart of the awards. He posted “In 2017, we created an association of audio producers in Uganda called APAU and by God’s grace I was elected as the President. Our main mission is to promote love, unity and improve on the creativity of audio producers by sharing ideas.

We achieved this, all I pray is, the love and unity keep growing stronger for the betterment of our industry.

I was nominated in #ZzinnaAwards alongside my fellow brothers.

An award is a token of appreciation for hardwork, @galaxyfm1002 thank you so much for recognizing my hardwork 2019/2020.

With due respect, I would love to dedicate my nomination to my fellow brothers listed below who still need more platform and they have really worked so hard to transform this music industry.

I dedicated my self to nurturing producers since then and by God’s grace they’re making it to the top;

I’m still producing more producers.

Please vote for your favourite producer.

On behalf of APAU, I WOULD LOVE TO CONGRATULATE MY BROTHERS FOR THEIR HARDWORK 2019/2020.

TO OTHER PRODUCERS; THIS IS JUST A AWAKE UP CALL FOR ALL OF US TO PULL UP OUR SOCKS”