Veteran musician Ragga Dee, whose real name is Daniel Kazibwe, says that singer Edrisa Musuuza alias Eddy Kenzo is a good artist but he is still not the best in Uganda. Ragga Dee took the chance and weighed in on Eddy Kenzo’s success after he was asked to rank the 2015 BET award winner in Uganda’s music industry based on his recent triumphant “Eddy Kenzo Festival” that he held at Kololo Airstrip.
Eddy Kenzo’s festival gathered a gigantic turn-up of outgoers at the Airstrip. It also had international acts from Zambia’s Mampi, American singer Matt B, Bahati, Harmonize, and local artistes entertained revellers.
While responding to the question, the singer explained that the Big Talent boss is a very good talented singer. He, however, noted that although he landed a Grammy awards nomination, Kenzo is not the best artiste in Uganda and there are very many more artistes who deserved to take that award home. Ragga Dee backed his point by asserting that there are very many artists in different regions and parts of Uganda that could be better than Eddy Kenzo that we have never even heard of simply because they don’t have a strong platform to come out.
“Eddy Kenzo is a very good artist. However he is not the best musician in Uganda. That is because there some other good artists in Karamoja and different regions that we don’t know of.” Said Ragga Dee.
Ragga Dee went ahead to stress that when you compare today’s music to the early 2000s and earlier years, the music then was very educative whereas today’s music is just bubble gum and no inspiration is drawn from it. He mentioned that music was earlier on used to teach the youths valuable lessons but currently, very many songs are also contributing to moral decay.
Ragga Dee, as expected has received a lot of criticism from a section of Eddy Kenzo fans following his statement and some have gone ahead to call him a faded singer and failed politician affiliated to a corrupt party. However much he has stressed that this is just his own opinion, he still is getting backlash.
