Inside the making of ‘Taata Wabaana’, timeless Bobi Wine, Juliana duet

At the time she was with Capital FM. Kanyomozi had joined the station while in S.6 vacation.

“He found me at Capital. I was still working with Capital,” she said in a media interview when asked how the collabo came about. “...he came with the idea, and we went to studio.”

The songstress had been singing for a while but hadn’t penetrated the mainstream music industry. This would be the song that did it. Her previous songs had been written in English, but the Luganda touch in Taata Wabaana changed everything for her.

Her first professional songs were in the six-track album she recorded with Iryn Namubiru while they were singing as a duo named I-Jay.

It was recorded from Baava Studios, owned by Hope Mukasa, by a producer named Daudi Kitasimbwa. The duo had been singing at Sabrina's Pub and Namubiru suggested that they do an album together since she was leaving for France to live with her baby daddy Frank Morel whose tour of duty in Kampala at the French Embassy had completed.

Juliana Kanyomozi later released Say It, collaborating with Vamposs, and another single titled Seven Days.

In an interview, Kanyomozi said about Taata Wabaana: “... the first time I had that big break… I think that was the time we did Tata W’abaana with Bobi Wine and it literally just crossed over... It just went crazy. It was crazy.

“That was a defining moment for me as an artiste. Because I felt like I had been accepted in a territory that I wasn't sure I would be accepted before. I wasn't very confident with singing Luganda before. I had been singing English, so when I did Luganda I was not sure how I'd be received. And then it was the complete opposite of what I was expecting. It was crazy.”

Meanwhile, she was with Capital FM for six years.