Singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi returned to reclaim his Bobi Wine name yesterday. He acquired the Bobi Wine name when he joined the Ugandan Music Industry more than 15 years ago.
Several individuals from State House including the Senior Presidential Press Secretary Don Wanyama were among the thousands of people who watched this show.
Bobi Wine who recently joined active politics and is now eyeing the Presidential seat has been off the music scene for a while. He is now sometimes referred to as a one-hit-wonder because he releases music but is blocked from playing on radio and TV because of the political affiliations.
After some of his songs were blocked from playing, he was also blocked from holding concerts in Uganda with his last being the Kyarenga Concert in Busaabala in 2018.
In a live online concert that lasted over 2 hours on Sunday night, Bobi Wine managed to gather over 28.8k live viewers on the video on his Facebook page, something which no Ugandan artiste has done before.
Even before it clocked 9:00pm, people were already locked on Bobi Wine’s Facebook page and YouTube channel in anticipation of how he was going to open the performances of his very first online concert show since the COVID-19 lockdown began.
It took about 20 minutes, from 8:40pm to 9pm, for Bobi Wine to come on set and by the time he walked from his house to the stage which was set just a few meters in front of his Magere mansion, people had already gathered and were making all the necessary noise in the comments section.
Together with Nubian Li, the Kyadondo East Member of Parliament started off the show with a reggae session and their two songs aimed at COVID-19 sensitization.
There were a couple of glitches on the first Facebook live video, probably because of network issues, and it had to be canceled.
Bobi Wine and his team then started another video and in just the first 30 minutes, the video had gathered 12.4k online viewers with over 6.3k reactions and 14k comments.
The show went on as the self-proclaimed Omubanda wa Kabaka performed most of his songs live with the Solid Band blending percussion and the modern instruments so well.
From the lighting, sound, organization, song selection, to having a lesser populated set, all worked in favor of Bobi Wine and even him was amazed by the numbers at the end of the show.
