Main Street Crew

Main Street Crew consists of two members Kiwanuka Ben a.k.a Main Ben and Mukwaya John a.k.a Mr Wind and it was formed in early January, 2006.

Main Ben and Mr. Wind met in school in 1994 – St Balikudembe and that is when they started to sing. They used to perform for a group called “Saka” which was the school choir where they performed mainly Choral music. Besides performing choral music they also performed urban music; mimed songs and also did original compositions. This group also consisted of Da Twins who are now based in the United Kingdom.

After St Balikudembe, Ben went to St Lawrence Creamland Campus while Mr Wind went to Kololo Senior Secondary School. During this time they never did much musically. They concentrated on their studies. After St Lawrence Main Ben headed to Makerere University where he pursued a degree in Bachelor in Business Administration where he majored in Accounting and he graduated in 2003.

Main Ben then worked with Radio Buddu in Masaka as an Accountant till last year in June when the contract expires and he was not willing to renew it. While at Radio Buddu he did different projects like training workers in production skills, skits and he also got training in production sound recording skills. The radio station crew was trained by Dechuvela, a German Group. Apart from accounting he also did a lot of work in production in his free time. He learnt different programs used in production. At this time Main Ben used to coordinate with Mr Wind who was busy pursuing his music career and had recorded with various people like Kasiwukira, Steve Jean.

Before he left Radio Buddu they got together with Mr. Wind and did “Tuzze” meaning we have come but never released the audio version of the song, the video was supplied to various TV stations. Last year they did their song called “Obagambe” meaning tell them. Currently the video is playing on WBS, EATV and UBC. They have compiled an album of 8 tracks and are still adding more songs.