Jack Rollen’s Throat Soars As He Talks About The ‘Broken Ugandan Music Industry’

The Ugandan music industry is such a tough industry to penetrate. Most upcoming artists don’t even make it to the lime. Its very difficult for an upcoming artist to enjoy his glime for a year in the Ugandan music industry, most of them don’t even go past their first hits.

The Ugandan music industry is one of the most dangerously competitive music industries in Uganda. It may only be second to Nigeria. The main difference is that the Nigerian music industry embraces positive competition which is the opposite in Uganda. In Uganda when you’re deciding on dropping your first hit, better wear your army uniform, carry your gun and load all your gears on you, you wouldn’t want to leave weapon behind, coz where your heading, you need every single help you can get your hands on. The Ugandan Music Industry is such a scary industry that most talented artists are even not confident enough/, they’re too scared to even join in showcase their work.

The established artists are teasers and critics. They can make your life a living hell if you’re unfortunate enough to share a studio with one. Most of them are unreasonably so bullish, they don’t want to share the industry with anyone. I believe some of them think the Ugandan music industry is their family brand, if not heirloom.

News has been spreading about incidences when some established artists even chase recording upcoming artists from the studio. It doesn’t matter to them whether you’re already in the recording booth or working on your track with the producer on the gear table, they’ll selfishly chase you out. I bet they think every studio in Uganda is their family’s plot of land, and they have control.

Actually the producers and record executives are to be blamed for allowing such a rotten habit to keep on preying the industry especially during studio sessions. A producer controls the studio. Its the producer to state clearly the dos and the don’ts of the studio. And encourage unity or respect at last for everyone in the studio.

There’s no justification for the habit of chasing an artist from the recording booth or even the studio yet he paid for his session, and clearly, the up-comer didn’t come with the artist trying to chase away, neither does that artist own or control the studio.

All artists deserve to be treated with respect regardless of the point at which they are in their career journey, we all start from somewhere.