Bebe Cool
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Bebe Cool (real name Musa Ssali; born 1 September 1977) is an African reggae and ragga musician from Uganda.
He started his career in Nairobi, Kenya, around 1997, but a few years later, moved to his home country.
Bebe Cool was one of the first Kenyan artists to be affiliated with Ogopa DJs, a production house, and a record label.
Early life
Bebe Coole attended Aga Khan Primary School in Kampala, Kitante Hill School, and Makerere College College School, where he attended school but was forced to drop out a year before reaching completion. He studied Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics at high school (PCB/M). Bebe Cool (formerly Bebe Bunton) started his music career right out of high school, where he was already known as an entertainment prefect.
Personal life
He was shot in the leg by a policeman in January 2010.
Bebe Cool was playing at the Kyadondo Rugby Club when a bomb by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab detonated (July 2010 Kampala attacks). "Most people who died were just in front of me," Cool says. The explosion was so loud—the next thing I heard were body parts flying over" is "body parts flying over."
Political life
In Uganda's 2021 presidential election, Bebe Cool supported President Museveni.
Music career
Bebe Cool is a three-time winner of the Artist of The Year Award at the Prestigious HiPipo Music Awards and won several accolades at Pearl of Africa Music Awards (PAM Awards). He was nominated for the Kora All-African Awards in 2003 and 2005. He has toured in the United Kingdom and the United States. Two of his popular singles are "Fitina" and "Mambo Mingi".
He also collaborated with Halima Namakula, a Ugandan veteran woman musician, on their crossover track "Sambagala". He released two solo albums, Maisha and Senta. His lyrics are in Luganda, Swahili, and English. Together with Kenyan duo Necessary Noize, Bebe Cool has formed a reggae group known as the East African Bashment Crew. They have released one album, Fire, and two hit singles, "Africa Unite" and "Fire". The group was nominated at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2008.
In 2013, Bebe Cool had a music battle with one of Nigeria's top artists D'banj in a neutral place, Glamis Arena Harare Zimbabwe. The show was organized under the theme "Battle for Africa". Bebe Cool put up a great performance at the battle.
In 2014, Bebe Cool’s remade Born in Africa remix song, a remake of the late Philly Lutaaya's song was voted among Africa’s greatest songs of all time.
The song came at number 15 in Fifty anthems for the African continent. BBC World Service listeners suggested the African songs that summed up the continent to them. This was to mark the 50th anniversary of the African Union – formerly the Organization of African Unity, From the suggestions, the BBC’s DJ Edu, who hosts a weekly African music show on BBC radio, compiled them into a special five-minute mix of 50 songs from 50 countries.
Bebe Cool has performed in the Big Brother house twice. From 2016 to 2018, there was rising controversy against Bebe Cool for being a chief organizer for Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the then-president of Uganda who had been described by international media outlets as dictatorial. Ugandans at one time chased him off the stage in a show before he could sing.
Bebe Cool won one Afrima award for the best East African male artist in 2018.