Goodlyfe crew member Moses Ssekibogo famously known by his stage name Radio, has been pronounced dead today morning at Case Hospital.
Radio has been in the intensive care unit for the past two weeks after undergoing a brain surgery.
His admission to hospital resulted from a bar brawl where he was punched to comma by a bar bouncer in Entebbe.
Several people including artistes and family members are flocking Case Hospital, Kampala to pay their last respect to the renowned singer.
Who is Radio?
Radio was part of the Goodlyfe Crew. His singing partner was Douglas Sseguya aka Weasel.
Radio provided smooth RnB vocals while Weasel’s contribution is a fusion of reggae, ragga and dancehall vibes.
Because of their prominence, Radio and Weasel formed their own duo known as Radio and Weasel.
Radio has had a prosperous musical career. He studied at Holy Cross Lake View Secondary School in Jinja, where he served as president of the school’s Youth Alive Club.
He composed musical projects for the club that succeeded in inter-school Youth Alive Club competitions.
In 2002, Radio studied at Kiira College Butiki in Jinja where he had a two-year break in his musical career concentrating on his studies.
He later joined Jose Chameleone’s Leone Island Crew in 2004.
While working as Chameleone’s backing vocalist, Radio released solos on Leone Island Records.
These include “Jennifer”, “Dagala”, “Wololo” and “Sweet Lady”.
Sweet Lady was well received, though Radio’s public profile remained low.
Radio and Weasel became backing vocalists for the greatly popular Ugandan musician Jose Chameleone, but later broke off from Chameleone’s Leone Island Crew in 2008 to form the Goodlyfe Crew.
The duo Radio and Weasel songs have been successful on Ugandan radio.
Starting with “Nakudata” in 2008, the duo released “Lwaki Onumya”, “Zuena”, “Nyambura” and “Bread and Butter”.
In mid-2008, the duo collaborated with artists such as Rachel Kay, Blu*3, OS, Allan Toniks, GNL and Zambia’s General Ozzy.
They performed live and collaborated with Ugandan artist Keko. Of recently, they knew African faces further with the likes of PJ Powers, with their song dubbed “Home to Africa”, with Jamaican superstar on their jam “Fire & Butter”
The super talented duo furthered their road to success by collaborating with the Warner Music Group twin brothers Locnville in their single, done
Radio and Weasel have over 15 music albums and they were the first East African musicians to be nominated in the prestigious BET Awards.
