By Reporter
While she could have chosen to be a model and still excel at it, Tutu Baibe chose to sing and she has since bagged 5 accolades for it in 5 straight years. Her game has elevated her to ome of the top female artistes in southern Sudan. Being a former Ugandan student at St. Lawrence University in Uganda makes it our business to follow up on Tutu.
The self-proclaimed singing queen has collaborated with South Sudanese elite artistes such as Dynamiq, Crazy fox, Twise B and Meenimen and Wj the king. The release of the much applauded track “We want peace” cemented her place as one of the most profound female artistes in South Sudan.
Her ability and versatility in tackling important subject matters, including peace awareness to South Sudan citizen with lyrics began 2017 with the release of ‘Acha Chak,’ which she appeared alongside other established South Sudan artistes. After hitting arguably the best verse on the track, Tutu Beibe began to turn heads with her lyrics. Her break through with the track ‘Football,’ saw her being nominated as the 1st female artist on top radio chart.
Throughout her music career. Tutu performed at the annual Festival in Kenya and Uganda alongside handpicked international artists in East Africa. Her buzz and success within a short period of time, has also led her to form an initiative organization, Tutu Foundation with which she realized the need to address and champion the rights of the girl-child education in South Sudan, and to raise awareness about the negative consequences that they face in their daily life, besides creating safe spaces and opportunities for them to thrive and prosper. So far through her Foundation’s scholarship program, above 300 vulnerable girls have been provided with educational opportunities. The scholarship targets mainly young girls who are survivors of early child marriage or girls from a very humble background who cannot afford to pay school fees. The Foundation also conducts mentorship sessions every term where positive role models visit the schools and inspire the students to work hard and advise them on ways to cope and overcome their challenges. Likewise, she was the one of the founder of Ana Taban initiative, which was involved in creating country-wide peace awareness.
Apart from these, she has functioned as a secretary during the National Peace Dialogue, where she has garnered lots of experiences in peace building process. Moreover, she has performed several peace building songs, including we want peace, Blood shed free and we are one that have enabled peaceful coexistence and community-wide peace building process. Tutu is passionate about creating a real difference to the citizen of South Sudan.