Christopher Evans’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ugandan singer
Is Singer
Songwriter
From Uganda
Type Music
Gender male
Birth

1987, Uganda

Age 34 years

Christopher Evans (born Christopher Evans Kaweesi; Christopher Evans Kaweesi), but commonly known as Chris Evans, is a Ugandan songwriter, recording and performing artist. He composes and sings in a genre of Ugandan music known as Kidandali.

Overview

Chris Evans is one of Uganda’s most popular musicians in the 21st century. In July 2013, BigEye.Ug, a Ugandan music website listed him as one of the 256 Best Ugandan Music Artistes Of All Time. Chris Evans sings primarily in his native Luganda. As of January 2014, he had released about ten singles including:

  • Ow’ekisa
  • Rihanna
  • Kankole Byenkola
  • Ndikusasulaki
  • Bwolonda
  • Abafumbo
  • Mulungi
  • Nsaasira

Background

Christopher Evans Kaweesi was born to Christopher Kakooza, a construction worker and Mrs. Kakooza, a housewife. His mother died while he was still a baby and his father died when Kaweesi was about 13 or 14 years old. He paid for his elementary and middle school education by performing menial jobs at construction sites and at school.

He passed his O-Level examinations with flying colors, scoring 14 points in 8 subjects (the best possible score is 8). His paternal uncle, sponsored his A-Level education at St. Mary’s Boarding Secondary School, Kitende, a good residential mixed high school, in Kajjansi, off of the Kampala-Entebbe Road. At Kitende, Kaweesi studies Physics, Chemistry and Biology, with Mathematics as a minor subject.

He was admitted to Makerere University on a Uganda Government scholarship to study Agriculture. He enrolled, attended classes, but never graduated. Instead, he used the contacts at the university, to launch his musical carrier.

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