Azawi Ranked By MTV Base Africa Among The Top Artists to Look Out For in Africa This Year

Posted on March 02, 2022
By Sean Musa Carter
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Over the previous months, Swangz Avenue singer Azawi has been all over the moon flourishing in success and like her song My Year, this year is already being her year. MTV Base has ranked her among top artistes to watch out for.

She recently came back from a successful northern Uganda tour which was a total sell out.

Priscilla Zawedde real known to many as Azawi was officially signed to Swangz Avenue record label on 1st November, 2019 after years of struggling to make it big in music.

Azawi is currently one of the next big artistes happening to Uganda and African music at large.

After releasing her debut single, Quinamino, it won her a lot of fans to her brand name and massive air play.

Her voice and lyrical maturity tops the music game in Uganda’s music industry.Because of her consistency and kind of rich musical content, Azawi has been named as part of the African artists to look out for by MTV Base.

MTV Base is a pay television music channel from Paramount Networks Uk and Austrilia that focuses on different musical genres like hip hop, R&B, reggae, funk, soul and dance music.

On February 28th 2020, Azawi dropped her debut first track EP called “Lo Fit”, which featured songs like Crazy Lover, Repeat It, Mbinyumirwa and Quinamino.

Last year on Independence Day, October 9th, 2021, Azawi released her debut ‘African Music’ album and it did not disappoint as it’s been trending on different music streams and topping countdowns on different media platforms globally.

The album has features top songs for party lovers like Party Mood, Majje that features Fik Fameica, Slow Dancing, Ache for you and Nkuchekele featuring Eddy Kenzo.

The album gives a challenge for one to pick a favorite song because she and her management gave it their whole when it came to beats and lyrics.

The ‘African Music’ album so far has gotten over 1.5M streams already on different channels and platforms with her song Ache for you being ranked by apple as one of the best songs of the year 2021.

Azawi being top of her career has been featured on different international platforms for interviews like the BBC spotlight.
Last year, the 25-year-old musician was recognized with over eight accolades from big Ugandan recognised awards events.
This year, Azawi will be travelling to the United Kingdom and Turkey for a musical and media tour.

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