Biography:
Cindy Sanyu, born Cinderella Sanyu is a Ugandan musician and song writer. She refers to herself as a beast in the Entertainment industry and hence nicknamed herself “The King Herself". Cindy was born on 28 August 1985 in Kampala but she hails from Mbale district.
She was one of the original members of Blu*3 which also consisted of Lilian Mbabazi and Jackie Chandiru. Cindy started singing when she was 6 in her local church at a small town called Ntinda. She took part in "Capital Radio All Stars talent search" when she was 16 years old. She took third place.
She has got a chance to perform with P-Square, Wahu, Beenie Man, Ne-Yo, Tiwa savage , Bobi Wine, Shaggy, Chameleon, Bebe Cool, Davido, Mr. G and Radio & Weasel.
She also worked with producer Steve Jean who made sure she participated in the "Coca-Cola Pop Stars" contest, which led to the formation of Blu*3 in 2003.
With Blu*3, Cindy found music success winning the Best Artist/Group from Uganda & Best Music Video from Uganda in the 2005 Kisima Music Awards, Video of the Year ("Hitaji") in the 2005 Pearl of Africa Music Awards - and Video of the Year ("Burrn") in the 2007 Pearl of Africa Music Awards and getting nominated for best East African Group in the 2005 Kora Awards Best East African Album (Hitaji) in the 2005 Tanzania Music Awards Best East African video ("Frisky") in the 2006 Channel O Music Video Awards Best Group & Best Performer in the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards and Best East African Song ('Where you are' with Radio & Weasel) in the 2010 Tanzania music awards.
Cindy was later dropped from the group and, in 2008, she embarked on a solo career. Her debut solo album 'Ayokyayokya'(2009) was a mega hit and it topped charts all over East Africa. She also made hitter hits like "Mbikooye" and "Nawewe", "Ayokyayokya", and "One and Only” She has had more successful songs like "Selekta".
Regarding her acting career, Cindy got her debut film acting role in a Ugandan musical drama film Bella in which she played Bella in a lead role. Her performance earned her nominations at the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Young Actor, Africa Lead Role In Film (Non Nigerian) at the Nigeria Entertainment Awards and Best Actress at Uganda Film Festival Awards, all which happened in 2018. She later worked on another film dubbed November Tear that was released in 2019.
Cinderella Sanyu was earlier on in a relationship with Mario Brunetti and the pair got a daughter together, Amani. She however parted ways with Mario and got engaged to actor, producer and film director Joel Okuyo Prynce in March 2020 in Kampala. She currently has two children with Prynce Okuyo
Awards.
• Female artiste of the year in the DIVA awards, 2009
• Teenies' dancehall artiste in Buzz teenies awards, 2010
• Best female artiste of the year in Buzz teenies awards, 2010
• Afrima awards best female artiste (East Africa) 2016
• Bingwa awards best artiste from Uganda 2016
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