Biography:
Azawi, born Priscilla Zawedde is a Ugandan singer and songwriter. Azawi was born in 1996 in Kampala Uganda. She comes from the family of the late Walusimbi Samuel and mother Nakamatte Mary. Azawi‘s dad passed on when she was in senior four and according to her life became more hard and complicated when her dad died.
Azawi started her education journey at Buganda road primary school where she studied up to primary five and she joined another school called Mother Kevin in Mukono district where she finished her primary seven from.
She then joined Lubiri SS but didn’t spend a lot of time there and she joined another school called st Janan. Azawi joined another school called London college in Nansana then finally joined St Henry’s college in Ggangu Masajja where she finished her senior four.
During her A level, she only studied senior six because of financial issues in her family but she highly passed her UACE. She later joined the Makerere University where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in commerce. She majorly studied on Scholarships because she was not only intelligent but very talented as well.
Azawi is currently signed under Swangz Avenue where she was signed in late 2019. According to Azawi, she was inspired to do music many years ago after frequently visiting the Nderre cultural centre to watch festivals.
Azawi later joined the Kika dance troupe in 2005 and after leaving Kika dance troupe Azawi started singing in school with the help of a friend who mentored her as a songwriter as well.
With this kind of talent, she has managed to write songs for Ugandan artists such as Lydia Jazmine, Nina Rose, Eddy Kenzo and many more. This year this released her debut five-track EP titled LO FIT.
She spent four years in this cultural group then she left the group. After leaving Kika Troupe she joined another cultural dancing group called Crane performers but she didn’t spend a lot of time in the group.
She then met another gentleman called Kizza Fred who was training schools in music and she didn’t hesitate to join the school choir of st Janan where she was mentored on how to sing and write by Kizza Fred. In her senior two, she recorded her first song called Bambi with her friend Shafic and it was produced by NIC.
In her senior six, her friend opened up a band called karma band which she joined. They used to perform every weekend in bars and she could do cover songs and she specified in doing dancehall and reggae cover songs especially from Jamaica.
The boss of Karma band got a chance to meet with big talent’s boss Eddy Kenzo who allowed them to perform with him at his 2016. Azawi used this chance to connect with Eddy Kenzo’s manager Beta who started involving direct her in most of the studio work at big talent.
On spotting how talented Azawi was when it came to writing, Eddy Kenzo started marketing her to various established artists and the first one was Lydia Jazmine who she wrote for almost an album. She later connected with Nina Rose and also wrote for her a song.
After quitting big talent studios Kusseim opened up his studio and he invited Azawi to sing and write a track he had been made and she didn’t let him down she ended up writing Quinamino on a track Kusseim had made.
After recording the song Azawi thought the best artist to sing the song was Winnie Nwagi and Kusseim decided to contact Julius Kyazze of Swangz Avenue. Kyazze loved the song and asked for more projects from Azawi to see how constituent she was. Kyazze loved the songs and invited her for a meeting at Swangz Avenue and Azawi thought they were just going to pay her for the written projects.
She was given an opportunity of being signed which she took and she was officially signed by Swangz Avenue and unveiled in November 2019 and in January 2020 they released their first single Quinamino which has rocked the Ugandan airwaves in 2020.
Azawi has made history by becoming the first female performer from Uganda to appear on billboards in Los Angeles and New York Times Square.
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