Sheebah
Sheebah Karungi, one of Uganda's biggest music stars, tells DJ Edu about her difficult journey to success, and why her mother doesn't support her career choices.
Sheebah Karungi is one of Uganda’s biggest music stars, but in a frank interview with DJ Edu, she reveals just how unlikely it was that she would make it big. She comes from a poor, one parent family, and left school at fourteen. She defied expectations and, through sheer determination, became a dancer, taught herself English, and released her first record.
It still isn’t easy: her mother, who Sheebah sees as a role model, doesn’t support her career choices, and Sheebah regards relationships with men as too risky. But Sheebah is not about to give up – in fact she says her journey to greatness has hardly begun!
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Sheebah Karungi: What's in my bag?
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