The Most Famous

SINGERS from Uganda

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This page contains a list of the greatest Ugandan Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 4,381 Singers, 1 of which were born in Uganda. This makes Uganda the birth place of the 124th most number of Singers behind Angola, and Burundi.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ugandan Singers of all time. This list of famous Ugandan Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Geoffrey Oryema (1953 - 2018)

With an HPI of 52.68, Geoffrey Oryema is the most famous Ugandan Singer.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Geoffrey Oryema (16 April 1953 – 22 June 2018) was a Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister in the government of Idi Amin, he began his life in exile. At the age of 24, and at the height of Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled out of the country in the trunk of a car.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Ugandan singers born between 1953 and 1953. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Ugandan singers include Geoffrey Oryema.

Deceased Ugandan Singers

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