1411: Geoffrey Oryema
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/08/31
1990
“Music accompanies everything in my culture… This music is not dead; it will never die.”
1996
“You need to go further beyond expectation.”
“My idea of being an artist is… a musical identity.”
“Third world artists are criticised… This is a double standard that is no longer acceptable to many of us.”
“My music comes from my heart… I want to be universal.”
2016
“I couldn’t continue living for all these years with the deep wound I left Uganda with.”
“I would like to close the sad chapter and start a new beginning.”
“From today, I want to make Uganda and France meet because they are both very important to me.”
2017
“That moment to me was like ‘life is an onion,’ because sometimes when you peel off the layers of an onion, it makes you weep.”
“Music and karaté played vital roles to help close those dark chapters.”
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