Maurice Kirya is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Uganda. Kirya likes to call his music fusion soul because of the way he fuses African percussions, African vocals with western and eastern influence.
Kirya has performed with Moussa Diallo (Mali), 2 Face Idibia (Nigeria), Yvonne Chaka Chaka (S. Africa), Indigenous (Belgium) Susanna Owiyo (Kenya), AY (Tanzania) among many. “I would like to hold workshops with musicians in every festival I attend, so we can rehearse a song that calls for peace throughout the world.”
Kirya was born into a musical family, almost all his siblings are singers. He grew up singing in school choirs, gospel churches, and later on joined non-government organizations were he reached out to educate the youth through music about HIV AIDS and raising money for open heart surgeries in Uganda
Discography:
Misubbaawa (2009)
The book of Kirya (2012)
Mwooyo (2015)
Free Dreams (2017)
Maan kirya is musically made..
I’m impressed with the talent..
If other ugandans can’t see this guy in time…they may keep regretting in the future…
But we have talented people
I know eastern Uganda we are the home of music in Uganda