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BIOGRAPHY- THE INSPIRING STORY OF ISAIAH KATUMWA THE UGANDAN JAZZ ICON



Isaiah Katumwa is a Ugandan instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and music artist who is famously known for Jazz music within Uganda and around the world. 

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 He has performed on the same stage with famous icons like the late Masekela. 

Isaiah Katumwa taught himself how to play a saxophone after he bought a saxophone from a man who was working with the prisons band. 

The saxophone was being disposed off by the force and it was sold to him and his friends at a lower price. 

He kept learning on his own how to play the instrument and later became very good at playing the instrument before taking up Jazz music as his career and profession. 

Isaiah Katumwa was born in Bulemeezi which is found in the central part of Uganda that was in the early 1970s. He grew up in different homes of his aunties and uncles. 

He started doing music while he was still in primary school where he used to participate in different music festivals that was organised nationally for schools.   

He studied at Kyambogo College School for his Advanced level of education at his advanced level of education he studied sciences with a subject combination of Physics, Economics and Mathematics and during his time he was very passionate about music especially jazz. 

After completing his secondary school education Isaiah Katumwa had to make up his mind on what he actually wanted to pursue in life.  

His father wanted him to become a Reverend father while his mother wanted him to further his education and become an Engineer.  He had to sit down and make up his mind on his future. 

He realised that there were very many engineers in the country and he wanted to do something unique and different and he also figured out that if he spent the next four years perfecting his musical talent and learning more about his instrument, he would become very successful. Isaiah Katumwa then decided to follow his passion and dive into music.

 During his vacation he got a job as a bar tender in one of the bars within Kampala and that was where he first met popular Ugandan music artist Jose Chameleon and this was actually before the music artist became very famous in the country. 

According to Isaiah Katumwa during an interview on one of the television stations in Uganda, they used to trek back home after work from the bar that was located in the city centre back home with Jose Chameleon who at the time lived in Kawempe and for him he lived in Kawanda which is located in the outskirts of Kampala.  

One time Isaiah Katumwa decided to go to church and that time he decided to go to Rubaga Miracle Centre which is owned by Pastor Robert Kayanja and during that time the church had invited some guests from the United States who were going to teach some church members who were playing instruments. 

So when he reached at the church they were called into the front and told to group themselves according to the instruments that they play.

 And they were given instruments that they could play. 

To the surprise of the guests, Isaiah Katumwa played the saxophone very well and as a reward one of the guests decided to donate to him his own saxophone which was new and better than the one that Isaiah Katumwa had earlier owned. 

One of the AfrigoBand members approached Isaiah Katumwa so that he could convince him to join the band but he declined the offer simply because according to him, he wanted to be creative and develop his own music sound and since Afrigoband has its fixed sound, then it is difficult to change that sound and that will only make him to concentrate on playing those tones that favour the band instead of experimenting with his own music sound.

 Isaiah Katumwa later decided to join Diamond Productions which was at the time owned by Kato Lubwama who is now a member of parliament in the Ugandan parliament. In this music group, he performed with people like Ronald Mayinja, Catherine Kusasira, and Charles Senkubuge among others. 

Isaiah Katumwa later decided to pursue Sound Engineering in the United States before relocating back to Uganda and starting out his career and a music artist.

  He is a very inspiring personality to very many Ugandan youths and his story shows that with determination, passion and persistence coupled with hard work you can achieve enormously in this world and in any field that you actually desire.

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