Lydia Nabawanuka alias Lydia Jazmine has revealed that 2018 was the best year of her musical carear.
Jazmine spilt with her longtime manager Bushingtone and since then, she has not signed a new manager nor signed into a singing musical label.
The ‘Olindaki’ hit maker says she stopped working with Bushingtone from around June and started working on her own, but the news became public long after that.
“I was alone from June last year without any management but pushed through as a woman plus a few people I chose to team up with. Last year was a one woman journey. I did well and I am very proud of myself,” she says.
Lydia Jazmine Music Career
Jazmine started singing way back as a child in her high school choir. She later joined Passover harvest centre and Watoto church choirs. In 2012 after her completion of High school, she joined a cover band called Gertnum, she specialised in doing covers and back up singing. She did numerous gigs and toured with artists like Coco Finger and Fidempa from Kenya. She later while at university together with guitarist Harry Lwanga formed an acoustic group of two people doing acoustic covers in bars as a way to raise her university tuition.
In 2013 while at one of her acoustic gigs, she met Radio and Weasel producer and manager Bushingtone who later hired her as the official back up artist for Ugandan singing duo Radio and Weasel who she backed on stage and in studio. Her voice featured in backgrounds of Radio and Weasel hit songs like Ntunga, breathe away, can’t let you go etc. She has also backed artists like Pallaso, Sheebah Karungi, Bebe cool among others.
At the end of 2014 she got signed to Necta Music under the management of Bushingtone and released her first single “you know” featuring dance hall superstar Rabadaba which was her break through into the Ugandan music industry and got nominated for Best RnB song in the Galaxy fm zina music Awards.
She featured on the Reach A Hand “if its not on its not safe” campaign song and became one of the (REACH A HAND) cultural icons in 2015 a youth led non-profit organisation focused on youth empowerment programs with emphasis on sexual reproductive health, rights and HIV/AIDS awareness where she featured on an awareness song “IF ITS NOT ON ITS NO SAFE” advising the youths to always use protection against AIDS by using condoms. She spear headed youth counselling campaigns about AIDS and staying in school as the REACH A HAND UGANDA (RAHU)
