Angella Katatumba

Angella Katatumba is a Ugandan Grade A vocal singer, philanthropist, diplomat and business woman.[1] According to A&R practitioner Bryan Morel Muhumuza, Katatumba is endowed with a distinctive alto voice, vocal power and huge octave counts. It is a classification shared with only United States singers Toni Braxton and Jennifer Holliday.

Angella Katatumba
Born
Uganda
NationalityUgandan
OccupationHotel MD, Singer, Philanthropist and brand influencer.
Musical career
Genres
Years active1996–present
LabelsA.K.D.F
Associated actsBryan Morel Muhumuza

She was recognized by United Nations in 2016 for her millennial inspiring music compositions and extremely unchallenged humanitarian work around Africa and surrounding continents.

Katatumba in 2005 also started to professionally record her music in Uganda. So far she has recorded two albums and is working on her third. Katatumba has made singing in English a priority since she started singing in Uganda; this is because she has always had the global market in mind and mostly because of her western upbringing.

The first album is titled Peace (a 10-track album with songs like: For You Gulu, Peace – a duet with Butcherman, Sikyettagga – a duet with Bebe Cool, I live For You, Let Me, I surrender, One Minute Man a duet with Bebe Cool, Success, Standing in the Rain and I Live For You Remix.

The second album is titled Glad I'm Alive, a 10-track album with songs like Feel Alright a duet with Navio, Glad I'm Alive, Thank You, The Pledge, Without You, Wind Beneath Your Wings, A Better Place a duet with First Love, Forgiveness, Ngenze Noono and Gwenjagala.

The third album is titled Supernatural Girl. It so far has songs like Together Forever, Let's Go Green a duet with Keko, In the Air a duet with Keko, Only You, So Close and Supernatural Girl, Mulago Yaffe, The Struggle ft NTO, So Painful ft NTO and Multiply By 2 ft Radio and Weasel.

In addition to music, in 2006 to present, Katatumba started an NGO called the Angella Katatumba Development Foundation, which is the umbrella of two of Katatumba's current projects.

The first is her extremely successful For You Gulu Project. The For You Gulu project's intention is through her music to raise awareness about the plight in Northern Uganda after the 21 year old war ended and to collect anything in kind to help the people of the war torn regions. After the massive success of her For You Gulu project, Katatumba, under her foundation continues to raise awareness for the suffering people in Uganda and eventually Africa.

The second project is Katatumba's "Let's Go Green campaign". After the tremendous success of Katatumba's For You Gulu project, in 2010 the British Council commissioned Katatumba and appointed her the International Climate Change Icon in Uganda 2010–2011. Her purpose was to spearhead again, through her music the awareness of climate change in Uganda. This project has also been extremely successful and has seen Katatumba globe trot to different parts of the world, among other places she went to Cancun Mexico where she attended the Global Climate Change summit and also performed for heads of states and other dignitaries her Let's Go Green song, which was being used as one of the theme songs at a number of events at the global climate change summit. She also goes to the villages in Uganda and especially in schools to teach about climate change.

The third project is Katatumba's Supernatural Girl Campaign. This project that was inspired by the success of her Supernatural Girl song that is about domestic violence,

The fourth project is Katatumba's "Mulago Yaffe". This project is to create awareness of the poor situation at Mulago National Referral Hospital and to help in any way we can by collecting from donors and donating necessary items to the hospital and patients.

On January 15, 2016, Katatumba personally donated 10M UGX to the Special Care Unit under the Mulago Yaffe project. The money was used to buy a phototherapy machine and syringe pump.

On July 1, 2016, Katatumba held her first concert that was extremely successful at the Kampala Serena Hotel and she donated 15 Million UGX of the proceeds collected to the Uganda Cancer Institute. Katatumba has so far with God's grace achieved a number of things.

[2] She is the daughter of H. E. Boney Mwebesa Katatumba, a fallen businessman and consul of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Uganda.

Katatumba is still involved in humanitarian work under the Angella Katatumba Development Foundation (A.K.D.F) and has been globally recognised especially for the "For You Gulu" and "Mulago Yaffe" projects.[3] She was one of the judges of the "airtel-trace music star" competition.[4]

Early life and education

Her father was H.E Boney Mwebesa Katatumba and her mother is Ms. Gertrude Katatumba, the proprietor AFK Beauty Clinic Kabalagala.

Katatumba has a sister and seven brothers; Rosemary, Allan, Dennis, Rugiirwa (Angella's Twin brother), Colin (the late), Ken, Ian and Jay.

She went to primary education in Uganda at the Katatumba Academy, from 1986 to 1994 then went to Belmont Senior Secondary School from 1994 to 1996 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she obtained a public relations diploma. She then went to Oxford Brookes University, England, where she got Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and law from 1996 to 1999. Also at Oxford Brookes University, England she continued on to obtain a Masters in international management / public relations in 1999–2000.

After university in England, Katatumba moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the US, where she had several well-paying and prestigious jobs in the hospitality industry. She worked at Buca Di Beppo Restaurant from 2001–2002, Isaac Hayes Restaurant in 2002–2003 also in Chicago and at Majestic Star Casino from 2003–2004 in Chicago Illinois, US, where she was earning up to almost US$100,000 per year with bonuses.

When Katatumba moved back home to Uganda in 2005, she started working as the managing director at her father H.E Dr. Boney Katatumba's Hotel called Hotel Diplomate in Kampala, Uganda. Katatumba is currently the managing director of the hotel.[5]

Awards and recognition

As listed by East Africa's renowned A&R practitioner and consultant Bryan Morel Muhumuza

  • Invited to attend and perform at the 4th annual African Union Humanitarian Symposium in Nairobi on 28 November – 1 December 2016.
  • Invited by the office of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to attend and perform at the first-ever world humanitarian summit in Istanbul, Turkey on 24 May 2016.
  • Selected by the High Commission for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on August 31, 2012 – To sing both the national anthems of Uganda and Trinidad and Tobago to mark the 50th anniversary of independence of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Office of the president on May 12, 2011 – Chose Katatumba to make history by being the first artist to ever accompany the police, army and prisons bands by singing the Uganda National Anthem for the first time ever in front of 13 heads of state.
  • Deutsche Welle TV (DWTV) February 2011 – Featured on DWTV on the Let's Go Green Campaign's success.
  • British Council appointed climate change icon in Uganda April 1, 2010 – April 1, 2011 – To use my status as a musician and a humanitarian to promote the awareness of climate change in Uganda.[6]
  • Al Jazeera TV February 2010 – Featured on Al Jazeera's Hot Spot Program regarding my music career and my For You Gulu Project

VOA November 10, 2009 – Featured on VOA's In Focus regarding my success as a singer

  • VOA September 22, 2009 – Featured on VOA's In Focus regarding For You Gulu Project
  • VOA August 29, 2007 – Featured on VOA, Straight Talk Africa, regarding my humanitarian work with For You Gulu Project
  • CNN October 27, 2006 – Featured on Inside Africa, regarding my humanitarian work with my For You Gulu Project
To watch the videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=07NAVIZAjZM, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=oOvNiY_-3E)
  • Last King of Scotland (Oscar-winning movie) – Played the part of Beautiful Woman Number 1, 2006

Awards:

  • Starqt Awards – Charity Foundation of the Year 2016
  • Uganda Entertainment Awards – Humanitarian Award of the Year 2016
  • CEO Global Awards – Humanitarian Award 2016
  • Kyambogo Rotaract Award – Humanitarian Award, For You Gulu and Climate Change Projects 2013
  • Diva Awards – Humanitarian Diva Dec 2010 & Role Model Diva Dec
  • 2011 Office of the Prime Minister of the Government Of Uganda: – Peace Award For You
  • Gulu Project Sept 2010
  • Record TV Uganda
  • Woman of Power Award 2009
  • Buzz Teens Award
  • Ugandan Teens Role Model in 2007 and 2008
  • Kampala Rotaract Award – Humanitarian Award For You Gulu Project in 2007
  • Music Talent Show Awards – For winning singing contests in Canada and Oxford 1994 –

See also

References
  1. "Angella Katatumba". www.wikidata.org. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. "A day with Angella Katatumba". Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. "INTERVIEW: Katatumba: I've Found the Love of My Life". Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  4. "Fatboy, Washington and Angella Katatumba unveiled as Airtel-Trace Music Star judges". Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. "Angella Katatumba bio". Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  6. "Angella Katatumba". www.climate-change.tv. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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