UGANDA: Director Of The Day Featuring Lukyamuzi Bashir Also Known As Badi.

Lukyamuzi Bashir (or Badi) born 7 Uganda music multi-award winning music video producer, director and proprietor of Badi music production. He is the Channel O Ugandan representative and the director of photography for the South Africa-based music TV channel and has worked on Off the Record, Introducing Keko and Lifestyle Uganda for the channel.is a Ugandan music director, film director and producer.

He started his journey way back as he used to work with VCL,

“I always enjoyed sketching art when in school and when the opportunity to work with VCL came by, I embraced it. I started out carrying equipment but during my free time, I would sneak and cram what the editors used to do so one time I asked a friend to let me edit a wedding. He was amused by my work, but then Mr Katende found me editing and that was my last day working there.”

He directed Blu*3s video Where you are featuring Goodlyfe Crew, Iryn Namubiru’s Bona Obasinga, and Vumilia by Chameleone. He also directed Goodlyfe Crew's music videos Talk n Talk, This is how we do it.

He directed the upcoming release Bala Bala Sese written by Usama Mukwaya and featuring Ashraf Ssemwogerere

Besides directing music videos and audio production, he has recently ventured into the unknown world of film and cinema where the industry is slowly but steadily picking up.

His production house Badi Music Production which is a record label, production company and events management company was founded in 2009 and has become very prominent over the years and has produced some of the best videos country world he said the name badi came about because of the quality of his good works. It is also known as the one stop centre for entertainment.

“I used to do videos in Nyonjo production in 2006   and all my videos had something extra unique, so people used to say I have new tricks (Bubadi) in all my videos, I thus concocted into Luganda to make “Badi”.

Through this job, he has been able to meet many people, achieved and still achieving a lot that he didn’t think he would have before.

Some of the best videos he says he has produced are
Kanywamusayi, Talk and talk, where you are (Goodlyf), how we do rmx( All-stars), Vumilia (Chameleone), Abalungi balumy (Bobi Wine), Yenze (Toniks), Tetubatya and I’m loving by A-Pass among others.

He believes Ugandan musicians should learn to trust Ugandan producers and directors instead of running off to work with foreigners.

“Ugandan musicians don’t know what they want. They don’t trust us at all and are excited easily. I believe what those guys can do, we can also do it, but an artist finds it okay to pay a Nigerian editor 20m Ugx for some crappy work, but can’t pay the same amount to us for nice jobs.”