Cindy Sanyu Explains Why Ugandan Musicians aren't Making Good Money from their Music

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By Gloria

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Ugandan Musicians Association acting President Cindy Sanyu has dished out words of advice to fellow artists on how to play their cards right, and avoid losing lots of their hard-earned money during the music creation process.

According to Cindy Sanyu, the main reasons why many artists do not make good money from their music is because they are too lazy to do anything for themselves, leaving most of the work to their managers.

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"Artists should write their music, produce and present the albums to the managers for promotion. With this, there is no way managers will ask for the 80% of the money," she said in an interview, also noting that this is part of her manifesto as UMA president.

In her view, she has managed to achieve much success because she writes all her songs, and is directly involved in all stage of her music production, meaning her team only comes in to do the promotion bit.

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When Cindy Sanyu broke away from the famous girl group Blu 3 in the early 2000s, she decided to go solo and never got signed under any management.

Such a bold move is always a challenge especially to upcoming female artistes who are on some occasions harassed and intimidated as they start their music journey.

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This is also one of the reasons why Cindy opted not to have any management team besides her sister.