- Bernard Kabanda
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Name = Bernard Kabanda
Img_capt = Olugendo Cover, Kabanda on guitar, Bakkabulindi on marakas
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Origin =Kampala
Genre = Kadongo Kamu |record_label =Real World Records
Years_active = Unknown –1999
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Notable_instruments =Bernard Kabanda (1959–1999) was a
Ugandan guitarist. He had just realised fame in the world music circuit through his appearances atWOMAD in the USA and the UK in 1999 before he died of AIDS less than two months after his performance at Womad's Reading festival, aged only 40.Before he died, he recorded an album with Womad, called "Olugendo".
He was discovered in the streets of
Kampala , Uganda's capital, playing on a guitar he had made himself out of scrap. He was content to play solo, or with simple tin-can percussion as he played in pubs in Kampala, and he did so also in his Womad tour, where he played with Samuel Bakkabulindi, who played make-shift shakers and tin-cans with drum sticks.External links
* [http://www.womad.org/?section=select&product_id=ws106 The Womad Select Information Page]
* [http://www.amadinda.co.uk/kabanda.do A Tribute to Bernard Kabanda]
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