Sylver Kyagulanyi

Biography:

Sylver Kyagulanyi is a Ugandan musician, music producer, songwriter and advocate. He is the director and CEO of Sikia Media Services. He has been one of the most successful songwriters in Uganda in the last ten years. Sylver Kyagulanyi was born in September 1979 in Kireka.

Kyagulanyi attended Nswanjere Junior Seminary for his primary education. He went to Kisubi Seminary and St Charles Lwangwa Secondary School, for his secondary education. He was admitted to Makerere University’s Mass Communication programme but left it and instead did a degree in Music, Dance and Drama, specializing in music.

He later returned to Makerere and pursued another law degree and majored in intellectual property which deals in fighting for the works of the artists including musicians, composers, music writers, authors, actors, and more

While at Makerere University, Kyagulanyi recorded and released "Omuzadde Katonda", the album that completely changed his fortunes. His Christian grounding is evident from some of his songs, such as Katonda Gwe nsinza, Olunaku luno and Tondeka Mukama, that strike a spiritual chord in his fans’ hearts.

He started singing when he was part of the soprano in Christ the King church choir in the early 1990s. Whilst in senior three, his song won the Youth Alive National Music Festival in 1995. Having won, Kyagulanyi continued developing his talent. During his senior six vacation in 1999, he released "Ekyasa Kyabakyala",

Kyagulanyi returned with another successful album in 2002 called Omuzadde and this time around he was under Diamond production of Kato Lubwama.

Sylver also ventured into music writing and his outstanding hit song was Nabikowa of Juliana Kanyomozi which was released in 2005 and he later teamed up with Iryn Namubiru and wrote for her a love ballad called Nkuweki which was released in 2006 and this was Namubiru's breakthrough hit and this song earned her a female artist of the year in the PAM awards of 2006.

In 2008 Sylver Kyagulanyi released another successful gospel song called Olunaku luno which topped the charts and it’s taken to be among the best gospel songs of all time. He was nominated in PAM awards for the same song and earned him various awards and recognition.

The following year he released another title track called Guma which was telling married women to stay and stick to their marriages. This also topped most of the music charts and it was among the most selling singles in 2009.

In 2019, he was among 144 Lawyers that enrolled as Advocates of the High Court in Kampala, Uganda. He earned a Post Graduate Diploma in legal practice from the Law Development Centre (LDC) in 2018

Sylver Kyagulanyi has been nominated in many music awards including PAM awards, Hipipo awards and VIGA awards. He has written music for a lot of artists

Awards
• PAM awards, best songwriter, 2006, 2010, an album of the year, 2007.
• VIGA awards, the song of the year