We started out with the release of the ''Atwooki Album'' 6th February on line, we have the 17 tracks' up on over 30 on line stores including Spotify and iTunes for my fans. The album took a full year 2016 in production and lets call it re-production because we had lost our complete album and data a day before 2015 ended. With the help of various artistes who accepted to feature on it, we( Zuli tums and Maro) managed to re-produce it and with some of the songs like Natereza, Freestyle, AddictedThe #BuyforKaramoja campaign March 29th: This was our second project that got joined by various celebrities like Douglas lwanga, Judith heard, Dazzle jam photography, Abryanzcollections, American actor Morocco Omari and many well wishers mainly from the charity organisation 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 fundraiser 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 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 harbour. 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 a annual voting practise 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 promient 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 dalaware 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 organised atmosphere with a theatre, museum , swings, hostels i mean, every thing 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.
Dalware 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 i had made through the #BuyForKaramoja campaign scriptwriter, Director and Actor Mr Morocco Omari from the famous ''The Empire'' fox series playing ''Taric''. 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 i 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 i was supposed to head to BOSTON for a show together with Irene Ntale on the 10th and of course i was just visiting so i was ready for my AUGUST karamoja show and on all these tours i 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 food ball 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 some one who knew some one 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 we 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.
we have released more music.
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/
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| The Nile beat crew performing Nziranago at Maro's concert |
New songs have come out, FIGHTER and NIGHE and have recorded a lot more as the year ended and as i write we are planning to shoot here in Berlin, Germany on the second day of 2018.
Happy new year to you all. Lets keep following and please subscribe to the official Maro YouTube for all New releases. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_E041ib0Y9BzJt_3iT7iw
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| Maro makes entry at the Nziranago concert | |
