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Fiona Wamala, the daughter of the late Elly Wamala, while appearing on Vybe Life, revealed how she played her false.
Fiona, who is a songwriter and singer, said sometime back she hit Jahlive studio with Geosteady to record a gospel song called Power.
After the recording session, the Amina hitmaker told her that he wanted to redo her Elly Wamala’s song titled Viola/Violet.
Fiona told Geosteady that she had no rights over the song but he could get permission to remake it after talking to the family heir, her brother, Spurgeon Wamala.
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To her shock, while at the airport, she was called with information that Geosteady had done the song without Spurgeon’s okay. [Fiona lives in the U.K.]. To make matters worse, he continued claiming that she gave him a say-so.
According to her, anyone who wants to remake her father’s songs has to go through Spurgeon who then coordinates with the rest of the family.
Geosteady, real name George William Kigozi, recently revealed that he drew his writing inspiration from Wamala.
"Elly Wamala, first of all, was my favorite musician... My father used to play his music... So, I grew up singing his songs though I didn't understand all the lyrics," said the crooner who in 2015 re-did his idol's 1975 song 'Violet'. [Geosteady changed the title to Viola.]
"The other thing is that his music could move from generation to generation... And I also found myself in a generation where musicians were redoing old songs... Gravity Omutujju had done Walumbe Zaaya of Paul Kafeero, The Don Emcee and GNL Zamba had done Ani Yali Amanyi," he said.
"So, when I came, I did justice to the song... and people liked it."
Elly Wamala, who died in 2004 from lung cancer, was one of Uganda's first musicians to release a recorded song and have it become a commercial hit in the 1950s when he released Nabutono.