{"id":34078,"date":"2018-04-06T06:11:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=34078"},"modified":"2018-04-06T06:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:11:40","slug":"eddy-kenzo-calls-for-govt-to-support-support-locals-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/eddy-kenzo-calls-for-govt-to-support-support-locals-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddy Kenzo calls for gov\u2019t to support support local\u2019s musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The famous Sitya Loss singer Edirisa Musuza popularly known as Eddy Kenzo has faulted government for failing to support local\u2019s musicians and the industry at large.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eddy Kenzo the government does not even have an idea of what musicians do and how important the international awards they win can help change the image of the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34083\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34083 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4ADB985D00000578-5583193-image-a-37_1522956913828-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4ADB985D00000578-5583193-image-a-37_1522956913828-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4ADB985D00000578-5583193-image-a-37_1522956913828.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Eddy Kenzo and a fan at the Uganda Museum after he handed over all his awards for public viewing<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alluding to his recently won Nickelodeon award, Kenzo says its high time government moves with the global trend by investing in musicians who are now being internationally recognized and not just concentrate on football and athletes.<\/p>\n<p>He is now asking government to give musicians more quality machines like cameras, build professional mastering studios which can reduce on the expenses they incur to travelling abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Eddy Kenzo yesterday donated two of his international awards to the Uganda Museum to act as an inspiration for the young generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa The famous Sitya Loss singer Edirisa Musuza popularly known as Eddy Kenzo has faulted government for failing to support local\u2019s musicians and the industry at large. According to Eddy Kenzo the government does not even have an idea of what musicians do and how important the international awards they win can help change the image of the country. Alluding to his recently won Nickelodeon award, Kenzo says its high time government moves with the global trend by investing in musicians who are now being internationally recognized and not just concentrate on football and athletes. He is now asking government to give musicians more quality machines like cameras, build professional mastering studios which can reduce on the expenses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}