Maddox Ssemanda Sematimba

Bio

Maddox Ssemanda Sematimba is the stage name for the Ugandan roots reggae musician David Amon Ssemanda Sematimba. He is popular in Uganda for his reggae ballads in Luganda. He was born in Kampala in 1971. He attended Makonzi Boarding Primary School and Busoga College Mwiri.

Before choosing a path in music, Sematimba worked as a primary school teacher. He relocated to Stockholm, Sweden in 1991, when he was 21 years old. While performing in night-clubs to pay for his computer studies, he met Kenneth 'Mafo' Ssejjemba Magoye, a fellow musician, who introduced him to Aggrey Ssembatya, the proprietor of Small Axe Productions. He moved to Göteborg where he eventually began work on his albums at Small Axe Studios. He wrote, composed, arranged, programmed, performed, co-mixed and produced all the songs on the albums while Aggrey engineered and co-mixed the albums.

In 2000, Maddox's first album 'Tukolagane' became a major hit in Uganda with hit singles like ‘Namagembe’. His second album 'Abato' (The youth) is a 12-track reggae album released in 2006. After a long hiatus from the Ugandan music live scene Maddox made a comeback in 2014. He is set to perform at the 2015 Bayimba Arts Festival in Kampala.

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Profile added by In-house East Africa on 16 Sep 2015
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