By Our Reporter
Having delivered Uganda’s biggest song of 2018, ‘’You and Me’’ with Lydia Jazmine, Daddy Andre is set to make his maiden stint on Coke Studio Africa. He is the force behind some of Uganda’s genre-defying smash hits like ‘’Weekend’’ by Sheebah featuring Runtown, Bebe Cool’s ‘’Tombawala’’, ‘’Biri Biri’’ by King Saha, ‘’Nkwatako’’ by Sheebah featuring Skales, among others.
On the upcoming season he will work on productions for: King Saha (Uganda) and Yared Negu (Ethiopia) and Lourena Nhate (Mozambique) Abush Zeleke (Ethiopia).
For the 2019 season of Coke Studio Africa, the Pan African music collaborative show has selected a cross-section of leading African music producers who continue to set trends and pioneer new sounds and emerging genres on the African music.
Top Ugandan producer Daddy Andre will join the Super 8 producers tasked with engineering music fusions and collaborations from all the African stars on the show. These will include two of Nigeria’s acclaimed music producers: GospelOnDaBeatz and Krizbeatz, Tanzania’s biggest music producer Lizer, Kenyan hitmaker Majic Mike, fast rising Kenyan producer – singer Viola Karuri, renowned Ethiopian music producer, songwriter and DJ Rophnan and the high-flying young Zimbabwean music producer Young DLC as well as 22 year-old rising Kenyan producer, Mutoria.
“It is an honor to collaborate at a Pan African level with the best of the best that Africa has to offer. I begun producing at a young age and learning from the work of successful producers and I am grateful that Coca-Cola has chosen me to represent Uganda this year,” commented Daddy Andre during his session at the studio in Nairobi.