Giovanni Kremer Kiyingi, a former student of Music Dance and Drama (MDD) at the temporarily defunct Makerere University will be performing live at the Blankets & Wine event on December 18.
Kiyingi is a talented African artist with the capacity to play over seven instruments as he sings along. When we talked to him, he assured us that he quit university because there are skills it couldn’t teach him.
“I gave up with University because of some reasons and I went on a self search for new sounds and skills all over the world, skills that I wasn’t going to get right in University,” he proudly said.
He has since traveled to many countries around the world which include Germany, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, Kenya, Tanzania, among others, playing the guitar, adungu, endere, ndingidi, akogo, madiinda, chivuti, engoma.
Kiyingi would be in his 3rd year at Makerere University if he had not dropped out to pursue ‘better’ skills than what the university teaches.
When we asked him how he felt being able to perform at Blankets & Wine once again, he said: “It feels good, I feel blessed, because it’s promising and encouraging and also a display of the good works I have so far been engaged in.
Asked for advice to students still at campus, he sad: “It’s good to have something you can do from your head, something you are passionate about even if you are limited with vocational knowledge.”
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