Ronald Mayinja is poised to end his musical sabbatical on March 8th with a mega concert at Serena hotel. Dubbed Ronald Mayinja at 47, the concert coincides with the international women’s day. The timing of the concert, reflects the veteran love ballads maestro’s intention to leverage his originally large female fan base to secure maximum collections and a sizeable stage comeback.
Mayinja exiled himself in the US after his large group of opposition fans back home in Uganda snubbed his concerts, angry at him for ditching Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, in favor of NRM’s candidate, Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni during the 2021 general elections.
Kaguta defeated the ghetto gladiator during that round of election, leaving his supporters angry at musicians like Ronald Mayinja who had ditched Bobi for the journeyman from Rwakitura, famous for his signature cowboy kikofiira.
Mayinja subsequently left for the US to spend quality time with his wife Ms. Kuliva, as he cooled off and tried his luck at Kyeyo to cover up for his lost potential earnings from the snubbed musical concerts back in Uganda, as a result of his switch from Bobi’s National Unity Platform to the ruling NRM party, bagging a Landcruiser truck, plus money.
For the sake of the uninitiated, Mayinja started his music journey with legendary Umar Katumba’s Emittoes Band where he remarkably composed his first memorably notable love song titled ‘Sinzooba.’ With the demise of the hugely promising Umar Katumba in a forgettable motor accident along Kampala-Masaka highway, Mayinja helped to start Eagles Production Band, going on to drop tens of remarkable songs.
His subsequent music albums featured songs on social and political topical issues of the moment, turning him into one among Uganda’s most loved musicians of his generation. Mayinja’s amazing mastery of his Luganda mother tongue coupled with his grasp of proverbs and idioms delivered with his sweet vocals, has helped over the years to turn the slender young man from Lukalu village, Gomba, into an incredible music sensation.
Industry pundits look at Mayinja’s upcoming concert after a long music hiatus as a massive chance for him to revive his waning local fans base or a curse poised to sink him deeper into the music abyss. Concert goers will pay 100,000 Uganda shillings to gain access to the show and watch Ronald Mayinja doing what he does best again. Whether the concert will help to turn around his waning fortunes or sink him further deeper into the whales-infested ocean, God forbid, time will tell.
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