By Lee Osbourne
Eddy Kenzo is living the dream after the most popular UK Newspaper and media website named the singer among the top five African pop musicians to watch this year. He was named along other big artistes on the African continent that include; Nigeria’s Wizkid, Congolese group Fabregas Le Metis Noir, British Ghanain Mista Silva and South African Hip Hop Star Kid X.
His Sitya Loss hit has taken him places all over the world and recently the singer was invited to feature on the 2015 AFCON official song alongside Nigeria’s WizKid, Congolese Fally Ipupa, Tofaan among others, which he performed at the official opening ceremony of the tournament in Equatorial Guinea.
Here’s what the Guardian wrote about Eddy Kenzo:
“Sitya Loss is the biggest African pop song you’ve probably never heard. Those paying attention to this year’s Africa Cup Of Nations opening ceremony will remember its singer, Ugandan Afropop singer Eddy Kenzo, performing alongside megastar Akon. A huge hit with unprecedented digital reach (upwards of 8m Youtube views), it did the rounds on local radio and then went stratospheric when Kenzo was on tour in the US. Apparently the video even caught the eye of mogul P Diddy. The typical shelf life of a pan-African hit can last anything from eight months to three years (as was the case for Flavour’s Nwa Baby) but the infectious song’s feel-good message – which translates broadly into “YOLO” – is the likeliest contender for Uganda’s first bona fide Afropop hit across Africa”.