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Ogwal’s father was a Supreme Court judge and Chairman of the Human Rights Commission so he took formal education seriously.
On top of that, Rasta Rob was the firstborn, so his father wanted him to be an inspiration to his siblings.
However, Rob was determined so he decided to leave home counting on living with his friends.
The next time his father heard about him was when he became famous, seven years later.
"He was so desperate to associate with me... oh, that's my son," said Rob in an interview with Crystal Newman.
They reconnected when Rasta Rob had relocated to England in the early 2000s but unfortunately, he passed away shortly after they reconciled. About three or four weeks later, said Rob.
Rasta Rob, who deejayed and worked as a radio host, grew up in Nakasero and Kololo in Kampala.
His parents were in exile for a bit after they tried to kill his dad during the Amin era. They went to Zambia when he was in P.3 and when they returned to Uganda, he completed from Buganda Road Primary School.
He then joined King's College Budo, Kololo High School and studied broadcast journalism after relocating to the U.K. at De Montfort University.
Rob started befriending deejays while in high school and he would sneak out of school to go clubbing.
In S.4 vacation, he started learning deejaying from DJ Will who later went to London and owns a night club called Pier One. Robert Mukiibi, now in America, also mentored him.
Rasta Rob was among the first four radio deejays on Uganda radio, with the others being Alex Ndawula, Chazio and Chris Ireland.
His radio work started in 1993 at Sanyu FM after its launch, but before this he was a night club deejay.
He worked at Sanyu for three years, then moved to CBS for another three years before moving to the U.K. In the UK, he was taken by DJ Will to work at his club in London.
While in the U.K., he deejayed and also worked on radio.
He returned after 10 years and left his wife who is a nurse with their two kids.
He wanted first to develop home before the whole family could come to Uganda.
On return, he joined Super FM in 2008. Super FM was started by Peter Sematimba who had poached him from Sanyu to CBS. He quit Super FM in 2016 and announced his departure live on air, following frustration with management.
He is now running businesses and deejaying. He said he blew up when he joined CBS FM and that’s around the same he released his first single Kiri Kiri Mabero, a collabo with Moses Kays.
Rasta Rob also worked on Sanyu TV.