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ambassador due to his passion for wildlife conservation. As a musician and actor. he won RFI’s(Radio France
International) 2010 Discoveries Music Award. He staged performances in Paris plus a year-long tour of Africa where he toured over 35 countries. He was nominated for the most gifted afro pop
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He joined the street performances as a singer, a rapper and a break dancer. It was during this time that he found a half burnt guitar which he decided to fix with his friend Cosmas, he used car clutch cables as guitar strings. His big brother Elvis Kirya ‘’Vampino’’ would take
Maurice to clubs and
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Maurice took his first ever flight to perform and tour with AY, gaining him an East
African Fan base. ‘Binadamu’(Human Beings) was a hit in East Africa and got nominated for a Kora Award. In 2005 Kirya held his first solo Concert at Steak Out in Kampala, marking it as the beginning of a loyal fan
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Maurice went to six different primary schools due to his parents moving a lot, namely, Kabojja
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Director of 'The Sound Cup Coffee' A Coffee Brand that started as a restaurant in 2013. He is also C.E.O/Founder of 'Piz & Pots', a Ugandan based Branding Agency. Piz & Pots is the company that also runs the annual music festival Kiryalive festival in Kampala.
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In the year 2000, Maurice recorded an album with a friend called Gil Martin (Martin
Galiwango) but unfortunately the radios could not play the music since he had recorded his vocal compositions to beats that he did not own, an honest amateur mistake.
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video of the year in the 2012 channel O video music awards. He was one of the three
Ugandan artists to perform at the inaugural annual Tribe One Festival, in South Africa. He has featured in Hollywood films like Queen of katwe as "Theo"-alongside
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Richard Kawesa as his guitarist and vocal sidekick, together they traveled to Rwanda and played at many cooperate events in Uganda, giving Maurice Kirya the experience he needed to scale up.
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His family was going through hard times, and
Maurice asked his parents if he could be allowed to pursue his music career if he promised to stay in school and also if he could pay for half of his tuition, to which they agreed.
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Secondary School Ndeeba, where he stayed for his ‘’O Level’’ Education before switching to Kampala Citizens College for his ‘’A level. and later Joined Maisha Film School.
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In December 2009, he released his debut album ‘’Misubbaawa’’ to much acclaim. The album featured songs like ‘’BodaBoda, Wooye, Malika and Misubbaawa.
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a night that happened every last Tuesday of the month, hosting artists, poets and painters at Club Rouge a well known night club in Uganda.
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born (4 November 1984) in Jinja and raised in Najjanakumbi to Tonny Munobbi and Sophie Baguma (Sophie passed on the 9 August 2015).
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as himself starring Forest whittaker ,Kerry washington and David Oyelowo. There after starring in "The Girl in the Yellow Jumper"
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they would perform as a duo, performing dancehall songs by
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681:"A fusion of two music worlds"
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1059:"Spotlight on Maurice Kirya"
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