Tekya "ABRAMZ" Abraham is a Ugandan hiphop artist (rapper & bboy/breaker).
Member of Ugandan veteran hiphop duo (Sylvester & Abramz).
Member of the Rock Steady Crew (RSC). Director/founder of Breakdance Project Uganda (BPU), a non profit organization which uses breaking and other elements of hiphop to promote positive social change and social responsibility.

Abramz got into hiphop as a kid. He started dancing in 1991 and emceeing (rapping) in 1992 and is still going strong.

Abramz is an entertainer and educator. Besides his work around various Ugandan communities, he's also performed, taught and inspired people in many different parts of the world such as Zanzibar, Burkina Faso, Denmark, Poland, Italy, USA, South Africa, Senegal, Mozambique, Swaziland, Austria, Kenya, Switzerland and Germany.

For more info and updates, visit Abramz' official website www.abramz.com

G+ Creatives presents #UgandaCalling

With the spirit of being the change the recurring event format Uganda Calling presented by G+ Creatives SMC Ltd. acts as a platform for artists and creatives located in East Africa.

From May until August 2018 Founder Claudia Greiner, producer and director of G+ Creatives, scouted young artists all over Kampala, Uganda. 

Eight MCs made it to the finals. In a team of four they join the workshop to produce a music album until they showcase their work at the main Uganda Calling event this year.

8 HOODS. 53 RAPPERS. 8 FINALISTS. 
Kampala's first underground rap platform.

Claudia Greiner: "I believe in talent, in the youth. This is why I left my home in Germany, my job as an architect, everything, behind last year. Here in Kampala I will go on working with the artists I scouted, push their careers and give them a voice. The eight finalists receive a full marketing package by G+ Creatives including a record deal, video production and a mentoring program."

We unite creative minds worldwide.

One of East Africa’s most influential hip-hop artists, GNL Zamba is credited with being a pioneer of hip-hop in Uganda. GNL Zamba raps in English and his indigenous Luganda dialect, fusing hip-hop beats with traditional African instrumentation, in what he has coined “Lugaflow.” He is the founder and C.E.O. of independent hip-hop record label, Baboon Forest Entertainment.
 
Celebrated as Uganda’s “ghetto storyteller,” GNL uses lyricism to both mirror and critique his society. His music directly addresses social justice, domestic violence, African pride, public health, sexuality, environmentalism and ethnicity; often through the narratives of relatable characters. His song Story ya Luka/Story of Luke, was selected by Uganda Ministry of Health to headline the 2010 AIDS awareness campaign for youth education in Uganda. A year later, his video collaboration with Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH) Uganda for True Manhood, won the People’s Choice Digital Media Award at the 2011 International Entertainment Education Conference. In 2014, the Twaweza Initiative awarded GNL for the positive social impact of his song We Cry, which tackles street violence and safe sex. Since 2013, GNL has been actively partnered with Reach A Hand Foundation Uganda, in a series of ongoing youth edutainment campaigns. Recognized for both his artistry and activism, GNL was invited into the academic sphere, when he lectured this year on oral literature and ethnology at Makerere University’s College of Humanities.
 
GNL Zamba’s impressive, and highly diverse repertoire spans across four albums: Koyi Koyi/ Riddles of Life (2009), Speaking Vernacular (2011), Renaissance (2013), and Dreaming in Color (2014). His popularity has earned him national deals as brand ambassador with Coca Cola, MTN Mobile Network, Dmark Mobile, Club Pilsner of East Africa Breweries, and Airtel Uganda. GNL has won several music awards including Uganda Buzz Music Awards Best Male Artist 2011/2012, and Best Group 2012/2013, Pearl of Africa Music Awards Best Hip-Hop Single 2009/2010/2011, as well as Club Music Video Awards Video of the Year 2013. At the international level, GNL has gained recognition performing at Ethiopia’s Selam Festival, Zanzibar’s Sauti Za Busara Festival, Denmark’s We Love African Music Festival, as well as tours in London, Sweden, Norway, Dubai, Tanzania, South Africa and throughout the USA; including the East African Convention, and the 2013 World Series of Beach Volleyball.
 
Currently, GNL is building a live world hip-hop fusion act that will begin touring internationally in 2016. He continues to explore his art and opportunities both within Uganda and internationally, to promote positive social change, and global cultural appreciation and awareness.


Ugandan-born rapper and vocalist Keya Nemesis sustained a high-profile cultural presence in Africa shortly after he hit the music scene in 2010.
 He won back-to-back Battle Rap Championships across the East African region before retiring from the competitive circuit aged only 20 in 2014.
Since then, a string of path-breaking releases have seen Keya Nemesis win multiple awards, notably being named twice by MTV Base in the Top Ten African Rappers in 2016 and 2017. Among the most riveting and energetic performers operating in Uganda, he thrives in the heat of local competition. Nemesis is fluent in Luganda, English and Swahili, and his eclectic style is both playful and quirky, aggressive and assertive.
Equally at home with classic hip-hop, trap, experimental-ism and Afro-dance-hall, his studio productions are in a state of permanent and sometimes radical evolution, spurred by collaborations with a wide range of local and international producers. His provocative and defiant style is reinforced by a rebellious imagery, while still being very much tongue-in-cheek.
The EP Abanazeeko Enfufu (translating as “The Chosen Ones”) was released in mid-2018 ahead of his European tour the same year. By the end of 2018, chart topping releases saw him become a massively popular East African artist set to blaze the globe with his sound, touring across Africa and Europe. Watch out for a series of releases with a variety of innovative producers throughout 2020.

3 times nominee, award winning hip hop rap artist based in uganda kampala.

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