SYPNOSIS:
Magada Ronald aka Maro is
a renowned Ugandan RnB and Afro beat Artiste, who has been in the game since
2010, ranked among the best vocalists in the nation. His hard work and persistence
has got him wherever he is and with his focus, there is no doubt that he is
destined to be greater than he is. Currently in collaboration with Kenya’s
Naiboi and Proff Kenya in a single titled DON’T STOP taking east Africa by
storm[available on BOOMPLAY MUSIC APP]. Also Check out “Atwooki Album” by Maro available on Spotify and iTunes.
BIOGRAPHY:
“Maro”, born Magada
Ronald may 7th 1987. Aka the “RnBKyabazinga” has been on the Ugandan music
scene since 2010 with a break
through being “Toneeraga” ft Mickie Wine of the famous Member of Parliament and
artiste Bobi wine’s Firebase crew.
In 2011 he was signed by Former
Westend entertainment of Aziz Azion. Released his first single named
“Sulabulungi” meaning ‘’Good night, a song that won him the women crowd followed
by the Lusoga hit “Biweewo’’, Telling partner that both should pray to get
through hardships in life to pave way for their Relationship. This is believed
to be the first sweetest Zouk, Lusoga feeling of the time. In 2012 January, he
left the Westend entertainment and released his hit collaboration “Baibe” ft
Mya of former Blu*3 the first ever and none forgettable women’s’ singing crew.
This is the song that made him more popular that he formed a label Vocal police
entertainment in the same month.
Under Vocalpolice Ent, he released a
hit single” Genda ewamwe”, a song that
took him places that to the present day he still reaps from it.
In the year 2013 a year in which he
released a single “musaayi”, a collaboration “Why” ft Gravity, “Omuweesi” and
he never looked farther than making his first concert, “THE MARO LIVE CONCERT” on the 14th
of September held at Freedom city rooftop. Second venue was Jinja at the
crested crane hotel.
THE MARO LIVE CONCERT 2013 SPONSERED
BY CLUB MUSIC AND PEPSI UGANDA
2013 was a great year. He was
nominated at the Buzz teen’s Awards and, right after a successful concert in
the next week, he won the award of Best collaboration [Why ft Gravity] of the
year at the first Club Music Video Award held on the 20th of
September 2013.
As the year 2013 came to an end,
another single “Risingstar”, speaking about his journey (clips of the awards
won appears, concerts he has been at in the years, etc. This was to inspire
fellow ‘’rising stars’’. THE SONG AND VIDEO HAS BEEN PREVIEWED BY TOP TEN NAIJA
BLOG FOR WEEKS.
2014 January; Maro released another
Lusoga love single ‘’Kyokoba’’ that we also the title of the concert together
with a collaboration that took Uganda by storm ‘’Mubbi bubbi’’ ft David Lutalo.
The combination was none expected
plus, the message in the song combined with the mellow voices of the two
artistes, No Ugandan has survived to be swept off their feet.
This called for another Mega concert
that was carried out on the 5th of September 2014 at Mackinnon
suites Nakasero Kampala, fee was 50 000/= ugx and yes it was Full house. See
pictorial.
THE 5TH SEPTEMBER 2014 KYOKOBA MUBBI
BUBBI CONCERT PICTORIAL;
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| CLUB BEER (NBL) was the Main sponsor of thre 5TH SEPTEMBER KYOKOBA MUBBI BUBBI CHARITY CONCERT |
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| Maro Makes entry with a big staetment! |
Family cheers up Maro has he works the crowds
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| Judith heard attended and bought her self a kyokoba C.D |
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| Crowds line up to Enter the Event. |
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| Interview By NBS TV Official Television station sponsor |
Maro Performing to ''Mum''
After the main concert as usual the
‘’RnBKyanbazinga’’ continues to his home ground so, he did crested crane hotel
gardens again and had a bigger crowd that he registered last year 2013.
2015, He began it with finishing
school as he graduated on the 21st
January, awarded with a bachelor’s degree of development studies at Makerere
University Kampala.
In
the next week he released his first single and video called ‘’Emberazo’’ (Your
ways) tackling and educating people to treat people the way they would want to
be treated. The video has received plays across boarders Kenya Mseto east
Africa show on citizens Tv.
He prepared a 17 track album of hits for that year.
Watch out for the release of the “Kamboine” album available on iTunes and Spotify.
As we would like to
call him, “Man of September” he held another memorable and bigger concert dubbed
KAMBOYINE LIVE CONCERT this time
from the land where he hails from(Jinja) at Trans-africa his home town with
over 3000 people. This was and still is the biggest artiste’s main concerts
held in Jinja town.
Unfortunately after the
concert and report from the box office, the artiste was not comfortable working
with his team and sent them off to take lone control, with help of only agents
and no Management.
2016 We
saw him release his collaboration with one of the biggest female names in
Uganda Iryn Namubiru titled “ADDICTED” and also gave us a live experience featuring
the artiste. Following the success of the show, Maro launched his studio
officially for recordings and production for both his works and any artistes
who love to work with his producer. Volume up records Uganda limited was formed
20th May 2016 and now is a registered company that does Jingles,
Music and other recording works like the current works by Maro (Atwooki Album)
with Sam Semogerere aka Zuli Tums as the resident engineer/producer. He later
released the Full 17 tracks album with collaborations with, Iryn Namubiru, King
saha, Lady Mariam, Keya Nemesis, Frasha and Naiboi of Kenya and singles like Atwooki,
singa, Kanyama, Nighe, Yoono, Zebra community, Nkwendha, Kwuudha, etc. The
artiste in this year was in a quest to professionalism in the music industry
concentrating on making sure his music was on sale online and doing more charity
with his partners VIVACONAGUA, with whom he had been working for two years and
ongoing.
This determined the
start of 2017 which started out with the #BuyforKaramoja campaign March
29th: “This was our second project that got joined by various
celebrities like Douglas lwanga, Judith heard, Dazzle jam photography, Abryanz collections,
American actor Morocco Omari and many well-wishers mainly from the charity organization
VIVACONAGUA for the cause of clean water and sanitation. This was a merchandise
sell that was coupled with two yard sales, a trip to Karamoja and a show (12
August 2017) to fundraise for clean WATER access in the area and the
Nabiratuk primary school in particular”.
http://celebbyte.com/photos-singer-ronald-maro-concludes-karamoja-charity-show/
MORE ABOUT THE WHOLE KARAMOJA PROJECT:
https://marouganda.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=uxEqrmABAAA.yzb0BPYvTD4BsUtRoARA4pslHwbiFSWMCT-zIAPu6yZwoCOFfFDTsvRWBdyxOxostuv3F3esF-MDRXKURXO7sg.i39mMz_GfW-bvq4WYqH5eA&postId=1670044924694010543&type=POST
USA - GERMAN TOUR: “26th-30th May I was the ''Twegaite
international convention(USA)Washington'' and I was invited to both attend and
perform for the congregation in Maryland at Gaylord hotel and harbor. This was
an amazing initiative that is running for years now and with a goal of
developing the area of Busoga where of course, I come from and represent. Each
year this get-together coupled with fundraisers, seminars, dinners and boat
Cruise parties to wrap the fun, happens in different cities in diaspora
depending on an annual voting practice by the executive panel. During the final
dinner and gala, I won the prize of recognition for the work I have done of
putting Busoga on the map presented by the right Hon speaker of the parliament
of Uganda, the prominent Rebecca Kadaga. Great moments I shared, I am happy to
share with you my happiness!
“After the 5 days of both learning and interacting with the Twegaite
visionaries and well-wishers, I had more time to get to visit Mr. Shane Palko
in Delaware with whom we visited The North bay he volunteers at with children
mainly from the famous ghetto of Baltimore every holiday to teach them other
ways of life that are not in schools' curriculum. The kids are over 400 in
number 5-18 years old brought by parents to interact with each other to forget
the situation in the ''humble'' Baltimore. They are split into groups of about
15-20 and each gets a care taker and teacher. Through the woods they play and
in the river they fish, cruise and learn about the nature in a well-designed organized
atmosphere with a theatre, museum , swings, hostels i mean, everything a kid
needs at that age. This experience got me thinking of creating the same for out
youths now that we have the biggest youth population and most are into the old
men's world having kids at their tender age. Well, we performed
RISINGSTAR [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx6vO1QFRu0 ] along with Mr. Shane on the guitar at an
entertainment evening they call ''The North bay live'' and the kids were
singing along which became the talk the next day making more friends as usual”.
Delaware is a small place full of happy people, farmers mainly and I felt
at home. Shane showed me a great time we even recorded a live version of
RISINGSTAR later with the other friends in the music circle and i still say it
is one of the happiest days of my life. A dream came true.
JUNE 2017 I continued to New York to meet a friend made through the
#BuyForKaramoja campaign scriptwriter, Director and Actor Mr. Morocco Omari
from the famous ''The Empire'' fox series playing ''Tariq''. With all the
flying back and forth i slept the whole day after being welcomed by the man
himself. I enjoyed the ride through Brooklyn the next days, the famous Brooklyn
Bridge, oho... the food, Jamaican juice in Harlem, the music, the Apollo with
Taylor Iman, the people and the friends made. the mission was to shoot the
KANYAMA video off the Atwooki album mentioned earlier so we got on it with the
help of Mr. Shabazz Ray on the camera and Juss Ruby as the vixen, we had this
shot in a day trying to narrate how a NYC date would be. This will be out 2018.
NYC was a short but memorable time as was supposed to head to BOSTON for a show
together with Irene Ntale on the 10th and of course was just visiting so I was
ready for my AUGUST karamoja show and on all these tours we collected some
dollars from those who managed to get us something to see that the karamoja
initiative was a success.
THE JULY GERMAN TOUR http://eagle.co.ug/2017/06/29/singer-maro-flies-uganda-flag-high-germany.html
VIVACONAGUA organizes an annual art festival where artists, painters,
writers, poets, Photographers and musicians from all over the world come to
show case their work for the cause of creating awareness and donating to water
supply in the affected areas. At the MILLERNTOR
GALLARY AND FESTIVAL, art Works are auctioned and the proceeds go to water
as the slogan goes, “Art creates water” “All for water, water for all”. Maro is
one of the African artistes who presented (twice on the media opening and first
day of the festival) among the many from Europe mainly. The festival happens at
the St. Pauli stadium in Hamburg, Germany and his 45 minutes performance was amazing
and entertaining with his different afro and none monotonous sound that got
people dancing and posting about him all over social media shining back at home
for representing the nation.
THE NZIRANAGO CONCERT SEPTEMBER 23RD 2017 DAM WATERS JINJA:
Press:http://celebbyte.com/singer-maro-takes-part-in-nziranago-concert-football-matches/
Busoga district comprises of 10 districts and several villages with Jinja Kamuli
Iganga being the most mentioned. The Nziranago concept was a bigger one and we
needed a hand that sponsors like Africell, Labonita herbal soap gave us for we
had to tour all the 10 districts playing football with the locals as a way of
creating awareness and promoting the Maro brand more as a social person. “We
played football with the local teams and our team was a collection of all team
maro bloggers, producer zuli tums, friends of Maro and MARO. Lol this was Fun. We
had three matches each weekend and travelled to a new village each
weekend. Most of these villages we had heard about but no idea how to get there
so, we relied on the help of the local council and some friends who lived near
or know someone who knew someone there. That was the nice thing, getting to
know the region and connect with the people not as a celebrity but as their son”.
NZIRANAGO FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJRKHrP4A8
ACTIVATIONS AND FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfoW-AkZaDw
The end result was the one day concert event that had friends like PROFF KENYA,
NAIBOI, FRASHA all from Kenya, JOANITA ZACKARIASSEN (Dk), SHANE PALKO (USA),
and a fleet of the Ugandan music fraternity from central and eastern Uganda to
grace the occasion.
An historical event. http://bigeye.ug/maro-jets-international-artistes-nzira-nago-concert/
MORE CONCERT PHOTOS
http://ugblizz.com/photos-maro-shuts-jinja-nzira-nago-concert/
MORE NEWS
http://celebbyte.com/movie-star-morocco-omari-supports-maros-concert/
“This particular
concert taught me much about friendship and the oneness my friends from the
Maro die-hards group have. This was a lot of work and with them we managed to
pull it off. many artistes have the fans' clubs and teams that do not even get
involved in the actual dirty work but this my group does. We ate the same food,
faced the same struggles, laughed and were sad together throughout the whole month
of activations and the concert. All the credit in getting everything done goes
to the Maro die hard group. I am really glad i got them close and can do such
good things together both business and fun.
New songs have come out, FIGHTER and NIGHE and have recorded a lot more as the
year ended”.
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