Monica Ahimbisibwe
Jacob Akunguzibwe alias DJ Jacob Omutuuze an entertainment critic and Ugandan DJ says the Ugandan music industry collapsed and is crippling at the moment.
He states that the industry has no signs of progress ever since politics invaded it with established artists taking sides which has since forced some talented artists to quit the music business.
The former Dembe FM presenter notes that the current crop of musicians in the business are just wannabes who do not know how to sing but are only being helped by AI to deliver thus the reason why vulgar songs have found their way to topping the charts lately.
He further states that how everything that is transpiring in showbiz is plastic compared to the earlier days when talented musicians including Mesach Ssemakula, Bobi Wine, and Bebe Cool were still active.
He emphasised, “The music industry collapsed long ago. Politics destroyed it. we no longer have artists, we only have wannabes. Most of them you see are only helped by computers to sing.”
He stated that the most talented musicians such Mesach Semakula, Ronald Mayinja, Mariam Ndagire quit singing, while others such as Bobi Wine, Bebe Cool, Chameleone are no longer as active as they used to be.
He said that the music industry lost its Originality long time ago and now everything is just plastic.
He moved on to the two music camps that is to say; the Uganda National Musicians Federation (UNMF) and Uganda Musicians Association (UMA).
He explained that these were created to further the confusion in the music industry and politicize everything concerning music.
He noted; ” UNMF and UMA are just clicks or dens of thieves created to chop government money. The federation is one of the clicks that was created to confuse artists. What the government would have done to help artists is to enforce the copyright bill.”
It should be noted that lately, music industry critics especially those that have been on the Scene for a long time have criticised the current musicians and music industry.
One wonders whether it is just them who are not willing to accept change. The music industry can never be the way it was in the early 2000s.
