Background
Ssematimba was born in Kampala in 1972.
Ssematimba was born in Kampala in 1972.
He attended Makonzi Boarding Primary School and Busoga College Mwiri.
He is popular in Uganda for his reggae ballads in Luganda, lives in Göteborg, Sweden. Before choosing a path in music, Ssematimba worked as a primary school teacher. He relocated to Stockholm, Sweden in 1991, when he was 21 years old.
While performing in night-clubs to pay for his computer studies, he met Kenneth "Mafo" Ssejjemba Magoye, a fellow musician, who introduced him to Aggrey Ssembatya, the proprietor of Small Axe Productions.
He moved to Göteborg where he eventually began work on his albums at Small Axe Studios. He wrote, composed, arranged, programmed, performed, co-mixed and produced all the songs on the albums while Aggrey engineered and co-mixed the albums.