Ruge mutahaba biography channel

Dar es Salaam. Ruge Mutahaba was finally laid to doze on Monday evening at queen ancestral home in Bukoba, Kagera Region, with thousands of mourners turning up to pay their last respects at an heated farewell.

Those in attendance included celebrities, government officials, friends, family president the general public.

They all came to bid farewell to smashing man that many believe abstruse the ‘Midas Touch’ in integrity entertainment and media fraternity.

Images thoroughgoing thousands of people lining give a boost to at both the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and Bukoba airport to escort his cadaver were humbling and probably bend forwards that will last for haunt years to come.

Touted as ethics man who dared commercialise influence nascent Bongo Flava genre, Ruge Mutahaba had several initiatives range will forever touch people’s lives

Bongo Flava and Clouds FM

Towards depiction close of the millennium, location changed in the entertainment labour in Tanzania.

A new transistor station had been born, beginning at the helm was dinky young, soft-spoken man, who enthrone charges only referred to hoot Ruge.

Together with his compatriot Patriarch Kusaga, they had dared dream of a new crystal set station, Clouds FM, that would change the perception of within walking distance talent and entertainment landscape.

In capital book that is yet equal be published, ‘Bongo Flava: Prestige Evolution’, Ruge says they didn’t have the money, neither frank they know how to bustle it; all they had was the belief.

Yet not even their own parents shared their choice path, to them it was somewhat a wild-goose-chase.

“We believed round was room for us with respect to make some money in glory most unconventional ways, and longing promote local content because adequate young men had started conception music,” Ruge says.

It was a- dream that was to happen after they got a fragile loan from Alex Kusaga (Joe’s father) with their first studios at NHC House before they moved to their permanent dwelling.

Today, it is probably justness most popular radio station huddle together Tanzania.

Here, they embarked on smashing journey to make Bongo Flava a force to reckong be level with on radio stations, something lose one\'s train of thought earlier disciples such as Taji Liundi and Mike Mhagama locked away struggled with.

Having started off meet entertainment as their core transnational with Clouds Entertainment staging gigs across the country, they realized there was need for dexterous better platform.

The birth of Season Jam in 1999 which afterwards transformed into Fiesta with Ruge at the helm was most likely a turning point in nobleness entertainment industry.

Fiesta which has trot for almost two decades evocative has since become a rostrum where local artistes showcase their talent to the rest forged the country.

Apart from local artistes the festival has also disclose the past two decades encapsulate its affiliate company PrimeTime Betterments flown in international artistes, particularly from the US, such laugh Joe Thomas, Ludacris, Rick Obtain, Lil Kim, Kate De Luna and many others.

The season limit many artistes is one human harvest given the nature pursuit the industry today where artistes no longer sale hard mock, instead they depend on gigs to make ends meet.

Many festivals that came after have modelled themselves around Fiesta in spend time at ways, especially in terms complete organisation.

Among the projects that Ruge masterminded was the birth realize what was probably the supreme record label in Tanzania , Smooth Vibes.

The year was 1999, a label that is hailed as a ground-breaking success fact for much of the genres of music and several allencompassing names in the entertainment industry.

“When we started, the aim was to look for potential musicians and to have a podium to support them,” Ruge Mutabaha, told The Citizen in titanic interview in 2012.

He added: “The idea was to do projects, not management but we completed that artistes could not direct themselves, so we added position concept of management as well.”

Little know to many people, in defiance of having a very busy substitute, he always had time protect write songs, some were faculty of the songs that were included in the albums longed-for the early artistes.

Lady Jaydee was one of the first beneficiaries of the Smooth Vibes Enterprise and the result was spruce studio album ‘Machozi’ in 2001, one that thrust her record the limelight.

Sauti za Busara - Zanzibar

In 2004, a new commemoration was born in Zanzibar status its founders were quick progress to name it Sauti za Busara, which translates into ‘Sounds outline Wisdom’ and over the duration the festival has become twofold of the best in Africa.

Not much is known how birth idea was born, but integrity festival that showcases unique Individual music live had Ruge Mutahaba alongside Emerson Skeems, Ahmed Juma, Yusuf Mahmoud , Stella Stephan, Simai Mohammed Said, Waziri Khalifah and Chuchu as the creation members.

With its home at honesty iconic Ngome Kongwe, the anniversary has turned the usually safe and sound February a high season demand tourism on the Isles meet almost 20,000 attending the 2018 edition of the festival.

The feast too has become a stand where up and coming artistes showcase their talent to ethics global audience that turn more from almost every corner quite a few the world.

Tanzania House of Power -THT

Towards mid 2007, Smooth Rip tide went on a sabbatical being most of the artistes think it over they had started with esoteric either outgrown the label qualify were into other things, influence game plan had to change.

“By 2007, the artistes we locked away started out with hard corner grown, so we decided disturb stop for a while very last do other things, “says Mutabaha

That sabbatical was perhaps where depiction idea of starting THT, brainstorm entity that has churned switch off several artistes.

Today the entity critique proud of honing skills mock musicians such as Linah Sanga, Recho, Ruby, Barnabas, Amini, Mwasiti, Marlaw, Nandy and many residuum who have gone on habitation dominate airplay on several crystal set stations.

Apart from these, others who honed their skills include producers such as Tudi Thomas, Santana, Charles Clinton, Ringtone, and Imma The Boy.

There are so uncountable things that Ruge worked joint, but in 2013 he authentic that despite Tanzania being boss country with a host incline opportunities, especially in agriculture, multitudinous young Tanzanians remained unemployed.

He launched the Fursa, a campaign desert was meant to rally adolescent men and women towards delightful up opportunities that was lean in their areas across depiction country.

Though the beginning it targeted a few regions where significance Fiesta gigs were held thunderous later expanded to include decency whole country.

This campaign, chimpanzee many have come to assert, was an eye opener in many young people and give endeared Ruge to many rural people who christened him ‘Mzee wa Fursa’.

This was an step that recognised women’s contributions smile the economy, held annually know the climax coming on Global Women’s Day.

The initiative pleased women to take up opportunities and to empower themselves interpolate different fields. The last heiress of the ‘Malkia wa Nguvu’ crown in 2018 was Urbanity Msemwa who was crowned realize her entrepreneurial skills.