Why Rema Namakula discouraged Chris Banina from joining music industry

According to Banina, Rema told him not to bother because the industry is stressful.

At the time he was running a clothing retail store, and she told him to focus on that. Rema herself has previously said that she doesn’t any of her kids to join the music industry and she is planning on retiring.

Chris Banina is a twin from a family of seven kids. He and his twin brother Joel are the lastborns.

They lost their father at a young age and they're raised by their single mother and grandmother.

They were born and raised in Kyotera district and Kooki in Rakai district.

One of his sisters Janet is married to Dr. Moses Ndimukika Maka who was elected the president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2022.

Chris Banina quit school while in S.2 though he never did Primary Leaving Examinations when he was joining high school. The school was owned by a family friend and they would go there to pass time.

After quitting school, he started working for his sister who owns Babies' Nest Day Care Centre and Kindergarten in Nsambya.

His sister kicked him out of the house when he went to play pool and returned late.

He got a job at an internet cafe to clean. He had won Shs800k during that game of pool and it's what he used to survive on when he was chased away.

When the money was finished, life became hard and he started surviving on his girlfriend who was stealing money from her parent's hardware shop.

He also started going to clubs to associate with singers and hustled different jobs to survive. Sometimes he would have nowhere to sleep and stay in bars the whole night.

One day while at Hi-Table, then a popular hangout on Kampala Road, he met a guy who couldn’t drive because he was drunk and wanted to evade ‘Kawunyemu’. Banina offered to drive him and he ended up hiring him as a houseboy.

That guy later left the country to stay in the Netherlands and later helped Banina to relocate to Sweden which he shortly left for France.

Chris Banina left Uganda in 2012 and his brother, Joel, joined him in 2014.

While in France he started teaching people how to dance. During this period, he initiated conversation with singer Carol Nantongo who kept on encouraging him to sing.

When he returned to Uganda, Ray Signature took him to Dan Magic's studio and Nantongo backed him to do his first song titled Win Anything. The next song was Body Language, followed by Kibelemu.

His breakthrough song was Like I Do.