Bobi Wine

BIO

Bobi Wine (real name Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi) was born on 12 February 1982 in Mpigi District South West of Kampala District. He was baptised Robert Kyagulanyi in the Roman Catholic Church. He went to Makerere University in Kampala and started making music in the early 2000s.

His first singles were 'Akagoma', 'Funtula' and 'Sunda' (featuring Ziggy D), which brought Bobi Wine into the limelight. He was previously part of the group Fire Base Crew. Later he formed the group Ghetto Republic of Uganja, which he leads.

Bobi wine like many other top Ugandan artistes is greatly loved and his music is greatly embraced at grass root level and has been praised for singing meaningful music. He has had quite a number of conflicts with the famous Bebe Cool and Chameleon.

He is associated to other musicians like Buchaman and Nubian Li who have sung alongside him in various productions. Bobi wine is also a movie actor mainly starring a few local movies commonly known as Binayugandda. He is well known for his love of cars and has quite a fleet of them including the famous American SUV the Escalade.

Bobi Wine is also associated with a famous TV show that is filmed at his plush lake-view mansion. He has a brand new released song entitled 'Dilemma' starring Mr.G and Cindy.