Know your celeb: Meet Angella Katatumba

Her limited participation in the music industry could be because she has to oversee the family business and they own lots of properties.

Angella has collaborated with a number of household names on music, including Bebe Cool (Sikyetaaga), Radio and Weasel (Multiply By 2) and Daddy Andre (Tonelabila).

Her other sweet jams include This Boy, featuring Pastor Yiga; Wendi with Daddy Andre, Love Me, featuring Kent & Flosso, Supernatural Girl, Only Jesus and Emotional.

Angella Katatumba, who started participating in talent shows at a young age, was born in Nairobi, Kenya and went to Riverside Farm Nursery School in Nairobo, Kampala Kindergarten, Katatumba Academy in Mbarara and Belmont Secondary School in Canada.

After high school, she went to Oxford Brookes University in England where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Law, and a master's degree in International Management/Public Relations.

While at university, she landed a gig to work as a lead singer with a live band that played at Ponanas’ Club on Cornmarket Street in Oxford, England. She was recommended by the dean who had seen her win talent shows at the university.

They were looking for someone to participate in a live band 

They offered her 300 pounds to perform per night.

She left the band after getting married to an American and relocated to Illinois, Chicago where she took on corporate jobs. They later divorced and she returned to Uganda in 2005, the same year that she recorded her first 10-track album. Angella continues to release music while at the same time participating in running family businesses.