1. Bebe Cool is a Ugandan reggae and ragga musician.
23 Facts About Bebe Cool
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Bebe Cool started his career around 1997 in Nairobi, Kenya, but later moved back to Uganda.
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Bebe Cool was one of the first artists affiliated with Ogopa Deejays, a production house and record label in Kenya.
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Bebe Cool attended Aga Khan Primary School, in Kampala, Kitante Hill School, and Makerere College School, where he attended school studies, but dropped out of school one year prior to completion.
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Bebe Cool started his music career right from high school when he was an entertainment prefect.
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Bebe Cool is a three-time winner of the Artist of The Year Award at the Prestigious HiPipo Music Awards and won several accolades at Pearl of Africa Music Awards.
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Bebe Cool was nominated for the Kora All-African Awards in 2003 and 2005.
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Bebe Cool has toured in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Bebe Cool was elected as the finance minister of the Uganda National Musicians' Federation headed by Eddy Kenzo in 2023.
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Bebe Cool collaborated with Halima Namakula, a Ugandan veteran woman musician, on their crossover track "Sambagala".
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Together with Kenyan duo Necessary Noize, Bebe Cool formed a reggae group known as the East African Bashment Crew.
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In 2013, Bebe Cool had a music battle with one of Nigeria's top artists D'banj in a neutral place, Glamis Arena Harare Zimbabwe.
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Bebe Cool put up a great performance at the battle.
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In 2014, Bebe Cool's remade Born in Africa remix song, a remake of the late Philly Lutaaya's song was voted among Africa's greatest songs of all time.
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Bebe Cool has performed in the Big Brother house twice.
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From 2016 to 2018, there was rising controversy against Bebe Cool for being a chief organizer for Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the president of Uganda who had been described by international media outlets as dictatorial.
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Bebe Cool won one Afrima award for the best East African male artist in 2018.
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In January 2010, Bebe was injured when a policeman shot him in the leg.
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On 11 July 2010, Bebe Cool was performing at the Kyadondo Rugby Club when a bomb set by Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab exploded.
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In 2008, Bebe Cool performed for the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute in Hyde Park, London.
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Bebe Cool was named by Nelson Mandela as one of the 46664 African ambassadors.
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On 3 August 2018, at a concert called The Golden Heart, Bebe Cool fundraised to sponsor five children with heart diseases to receive medical treatment in India.
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Bebe Cool supported Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni in the 2021 presidential elections in Uganda and a member of the MK movement project.