Biography:
Big Tril, born Rowland Raymond kaiza is a Ugandan rapper, producer and songwriter. He was born in 1990. He is widely known for his single hit “Parte After Parte” and giddem ft Beenie Gunter. Rowland was born in Uganda and he was raised as the fourth child out of five by single mother, Esther Nankinga.
For his studies, he attended Turkish Light Academy for his O and A-levels before graduating and gaining admission to Makerere University for a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. However much he was a very smart student with good grades, he dropped out after one year to pursue a musical career.
Rowland stated his stage name, Big Tril, to be an acronym for "Born in Greatness To Rise into a Legend. He is recorded to have done a lot of rhymes and poetry in high school but claimed that he never planned to venture into music but it rather 'called out' to him.
Rowland started out by battle rapping also known as underground rap while still in Makerere University at Club Rouge and Nana hostel. It was during one of these rapping sessions that he hooked up with GNL Zamba who signed him to Baboon Forest Entertainment. He worked with them for three years before working as a radio host on X Fm.
During this time, he released minor hit singles that failed to gain popularity outside Uganda such as "Push Harder" in 2012, "Pretty Girls" in 2015, "Bad Gyal Ting" in 2017 and "Giddem” Rowland left Baboon Forest Entertainment when he met John Obas Isokpehi, CEO of Striker Entertainment, a Nigerian label based in Uganda who got him signed.
Rowland released his breakthrough single "Parte After Parte" in August 2019 with the official music video on 13 September 2019. It currently has 2.1million views on YouTube. The song received a lot of airplay in places outside Uganda including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya where it became gained popularity after Rowland performed it during the Nyege Nyege festival, eventually becoming an unofficial anthem.
The song peaked at number one on the African Music Chart. It peaked at number one on the Apple Music Top 100 charts in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi and number two on the Apple Music Top 100: Nigeria chart behind Davido and Popcaan's "Risky”.
It also peaked in the top 10 positions on the Boomplay Music Top 100: Nigeria chart. Big Tril planned to embark on his debut concert in early 2020 sometime in the month of March.
Big Tril is currently single but said he could wed a Kenyan woman if she was suitable.
As per his achievements, Big Tril has won two Buzz Teeniez Awards for Hottest Hip-Hop Song of the Year and Hottest Song of the Year for "Parte After Parte" in 2019. Big Tril also won a Zzina award in 2020 in the Best Lugaflow/Rap Song category for "Parte After Parte.
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