Michael Kisto

His full name is Michael Kisto Nsubuga, but to many fans he is simply Michael Kisto. He is a Ugandan by Nationality, comes from a family of many kids and he is the fourth last born in our family. He started off in church and partly outside church, though he used to do shadow piano playing he could hear a song he could play piano and then but I joined Kampala Pentecostal church choir in 1997 a singer.

Later, he started learning sound engineering in the church as the only way to access the music equipment. A friend of his taught him a few chords on the acoustic guitar. In the evening he used to go to church grab his bass guitar and try to adventure the unknown music lines little by little he started playing’ bass guitar on his own.

He finally got a chance to work with a jazz band called Jazz Conexions which used to play at Serena Hotel. He played with them for some time and it was nice experience. He learnt all the old time jazz music from them. He joined another band of vibrant young musicians called U4RIA with guys like Maurice Kirya, Papito and the Blood brothers (Alex and Dater) ,that was place known as Blue Mango. He later decided to come up with his own music compositions. He recorded three songs: “One mo chance, A good world and East African dance.” “One mo chance” was the first song he recorded he featured one of his friends called Nick Mayas on the choruses and with this song he played the acoustic guitar it’s a kind of smooth jazz feel and sentimental.

Staying in South Africa, he has learnt a lot from many musicians within. But now he has come up with his own band called Afro Redemption playing afro jazz music only. They had a chance to be interviewed after a one performance by Soweto TV which many here refer to as DSTV. Now they are composing their own songs and are getting ready to hit the studios and record companies for deals.