Who is Abtex Musinguzi? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, early life and education and background of the president of the Federation of Uganda Promoters Association.
Abtex Musinguzi is an event promoter, artist manager and the president of the Federation of Uganda Promoters Association, a podium that brings closer all event promoters in the country.
Abtex has been an event promoter since the year 1998 and a lot of events and shows have been written to his name and these include the famous Enkuka show that takes place every year in Lubiri Mengo and the guest of honour is always the Kabaka of Buganda.
Abtex is also known for bringing international artists and at the top of a Tanzanian artiste known as Saida Karoli of the Wancekecha fame, Abtex brought her in Uganda.
Early life and education
Abtex birth name Abbey Musinguzi was born on 7th July 1970 in Masaka district although his parents come from a district known as Kabarole and in a place called Kabwohe. He is a Munyankole by tribe and he is well known for his round hat he puts on which acts as his trademark.
He is the third born of the family and his father was an electrician who used to work in Masaka.
Abbey didn’t go far when it came to education and he remembers joining Kijjabwami primary school where he studied up to primary three then left school for a year then returned and joined Kissajjagulwa primary school where he joined primary six but studied for one term and he again left school.
After a year he joined another school known as Bwaala primary school still in Masaka and studied primary six for one term and he again left school and this time around he never returned to school but instead headed to the streets and started hustling.
Work and experience
#Promotion career
After quitting school Musingunzi started working for a discotheque called simple villas in Masaka where he worked as a DJ and was known as DJ Abbey but he loved the way pride productions of Pride Theater was doing its productions.
They inspired him to join the industry of organizing events and when pride production carried out a successful show in Masaka of the late Living Stone Kasozi, Abtex joined the business and his first show was in Masaka and the list of musicians he put on the show where Mathias Walukaga and Mamuli Katumba who were both upcoming artists.
The entrance fee was 2000 and he had paid both the artists 70,000 shillings each. His second show was in cinema Masaka where he brought a then radio personality and celebrity Mulindwa Muwonge who had a drama play that most people loved to watch at the time.
After these two small shows, Abtex decided to try his luck by organizing a big and mega show at Masaka recreational centre.
He decided to contact the then Kadongo Kamu star Paul Job Kafeero with the help of Mamuli Katumba who took him to Nile Theater where Kafeero used to chill from. He had code-named his show Ani asinga meaning who is the best in the local language.
His list had artists like Paul Job Kafeero, Mulindwa Muwonge and Geoffrey Lutaaya but Kaffero requested him to pay a deposit of 500,000 shillings which he did.
To push his concert to the next level he hired a plane to promote his concert and Abtex recalls making money from the concert to an extent that he spent the whole day counting the money he had made from the concert.
After this successful concert, he managed to buy his first car which was a Sahara and he bought it at 8 million shillings.
In 2002 he tried his lack by contacting Saida Karoli who was selling like a hot cake and had a Wanchekencha hit song but she refused to perform in Mbale after seeing how successful the concert was.
When the Enkuka show started he became the official organizer and he managed to win the bid because of his earlier experiences when it came to events and is remembered of the 2019 Enkuka show where he had contacted the South African artist Chaka Chaka to come and perform but she was deported over issues of performance tickets.
Artist’s manager
Of late Abtex Musinguzi joined the business of managing music artists and the first artist he signed is Serena Bata who was once under the management of Sipapa entertainment.
Abtex says he was inspired by Jeff Kiwa to join the business of managing music artists and since events no longer have money like how they used to be.
Relationship
Abtex Musinguzi says is a married man but with many children and many wives but is not comfortable exposing his family.
Hobbies
He loves spending his day listening to music especially kadongo Kamu and watching movies.
Controversies
Abtex has been always accused of not paying people he works with especially on the events and various musicians have come out to accuse him of not paying.
But Abtex says at times people don’t understand him especially musicians and the only time he doesn’t pay artists is when the organized show has flopped.
Abtex is a supporter of Bobi wine and this has landed him into problems with the state and this has made him be arrested several times with his friend Bajjo before he joined the government.
Abtex Musinguzi is among the promoters who claim to have organized shows for Bobi wine before they were cancelled out and the promoters responded by going to court with the lead of Abtex.
The latest scandal in which Abtex has been involved in is the Mama Fina scandal where he came out and said that he was deep in love with this traditional healer.
Mama Fina responded by saying that she cannot love Abtex and besides that, she is a married woman. Abtex went ahead and said that he had been sending money to Mama Fina through her mobile money number for the last three years.
Abtex went ahead and recorded a song as a dedication to Mama Fina but all this didn’t work out.
