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The talented Swangz Avenue artist on Monday held a listening party for her “Sankofa” album which is coming out on Independence Day, October 9.
At the party, Azawi recounted how she dated a man and went to great lengths to keep him, unaware that he was only using her.
At the time she was a student at Makerere University.
To make ends meet, she was working with a music band, while at the same time helping out her mother’s business as a food vendor.
She, however, made the mistake of dating one of her mother’s customers whom she thought was very rich.
The man, whom she only identified as Eddy, was a regular customer who used to buy chicken every day.
By then chicken was Shs 5000, and so the people who ate were the classiest because the rest of the dishes were as cheap as Shs 1,500,” Azawi narrated to her fans.
When this man hit on her, she immediately fell in love. They started dating and she served him food daily.
One time, however, he stopped paying and Azawi carried on serving him on credit without her mother’s knowledge.
When the debts accumulated in the books eventually, her mother noticed. Not wanting to expose her lover, Azawi says she lied that it was another customer who was taking food on credit.
In the end, she took money from her band performance and cleared the debt.
One afternoon, however, she received a call from her lover. But on the phone was a woman, who wanted to order food on credit.
“I was a bit shocked, but because I still had a soft spot for my baby, I took the food to his place and found this woman. I asked her if she was related to Eddy, only to tell me that she was his girlfriend.”
“I learnt my lesson then. Up to now I still have the same number but even if he calls me I can never pick up that idiot,” she said.
Azawi says this story was the inspiration for her song titled ‘brand new’ which talks about toxic love and how people lose themselves when they fall in love.