Who is DJ Slick Stuart? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, music, wife, family, DJ career, early life and education of Stuart Kavuma.
Slick Stuart is a DJ at NXT radio under Next Media Services where he DJs in an evening drive show called the Transit but before joining NXT radio he was at KFM together with his partner Roja in a show called superstar Friday.
DJ Slick Stuart made a name in 2012 after coming up with extended versions of songs in videos and audios that were appreciated by fellow DJs and musicians.
He was later signed by silk events and he became one of the official DJs of the company where he featured on most of the international shows that where organized by silk.
In 2014 Slick teamed up with his fellow DJ called Roja and they formed the famous Slick Stuart Roja brand which is the most common and known DJ duo in the country. They are also known for their annual mixtape parties where they launch they’re newly recorded and released songs with Ugandan artists.
Of the two Stuart and Roja, Stuart is the most controversial one and makes news starting from his public life to his private life and is taken to be the ladies wine who at some point rumour had it that sugar mummies where chewing up his career.
Early life and education
Slick Stuart birth name Stuart Kavuma was born on November 3, 1990, in Makindye Division to the family of the Late Mr Kavuma and Mrs Joyce Nalukenge Kavuma and he is the second last born of the five children in the family.
Kavuma went to Vincent primary school, Shimon Demonstration School.
After his primary, he joined East high school, Kawanda SS for his O-level and Kabojja High school for his A-level. After his secondary education, Stuart joined Makerere University for a Bachelors Degree in Information Technology but dropped out in his second year.
Stuart says his education was a hustle and he was expelled from many schools over discipline issues but he managed to complete his secondary education.
Why the name Slick?
He got the name Slick from high school after breaking the school rules by sneaking in gadgets at school. So one time a girl said that he was so Slick with gadgets and from onwards the name stuck.
DJ Career
Slick Stuart comes from a background of deejaying with his late father having owned a discotheque known as Soul Disco that was popular in the 90s and had Mcs like Rasta Rob, Mosh and many more DJs at the time.
This inspired Stuart to learn deejaying since he was exposed to the machines whenever he wanted to practice and he recalls one of his father’s workers could connecting for him because his father did not want anybody to on his machines.
In 2009 Kavuma joined the DJ business and he started by making extended versions of songs and also making extended music videos for music genres such as Hip hop, Rnb, pop and EDM albums for various artists.
In 2012 Stuart joined a company called Extended videos where they used to edit videos to match the audios to play without stopping.
After sometime club DJs like Selector Jay started contacting him to order the edited versions of the videos and that’s how he slowly started getting into the industry.
During this time Kavuma was contacted by Silk events to do video mixing at their events and according to Stuart, his breakthrough came in 2012 when he played at the street jam still at silk events. This was one of the biggest events in town and every DJ would wish to play on such an event.
At the same event and his first big stage performance he was told to battle DJ Shiru and according to Slick, Shiru beat him hands down and the crowd kept asking where they had brought him from.
In 2013 he returned on the same stage with DJ Shiru but had learnt a lot from the previous experience. This time around he battled him and emerged the crowd’s favourite.
The Slick Stuart and Roja Duo
Slick says when he had just started his career he used to do a lot of high school events and he would always see Roja at the same events.
So this was intriguing to him and he decided to ask and know who his competitor was and they ended up becoming friends since they had appreciated each other’s music.
After two years as friends, the two decided to organize an event for their friends and this was their first mixtape party at club venom. It was a sold-out event although it was by invitation after the event they were both convinced that they can pull it off if they had come together.
The mixtape party became their trademark and two years down the road they were signed under KFM and they became the official DJs of the superstar Friday.
Slick says they encounter differences as partners but what keeps them going is the background and where they wish to be in the future.
After some time the duo decided to come up with an idea of collaborating with musicians. Slick says DJ Khaled and Shiru inspired them a lot to start collaborating with artists. The first song to be released by the duo was walk to work were they featured Nutty Neithan.
In 2018 this DJ duo quit KFM and joined NXT radio under NXT media services where they co-host shows. Slick features in an evening show known as the Transit that airs Monday to Friday.
Awards
- Buzz Teens Awards, wickedest DJ of the year, 2016
- Nigeria entertainment awards, best DJ non-Nigerian, 2016
- Hipipo music awards, DJ of the year, 2017
Nomination
- Nigeria music awards, DJ of the year, 2016
Singles
- Ready to go ft Jamal, 2015
- Eva ft Ykee Benda, 2016
- Attention ft Naila Ali, 2016
- Pon mi ft Bennie Gunter, 2017
- Very well ft King Saha, 2018
- More of this ft Rema Namakula, 2019
- Sunday ft Allan Toniks, 2019
Controversies
Slick has always been accused of dating all kinds of ladies. It was once rumoured that slick had also started dating sugar mummies to sustain his brand since deejaying was not providing enough income for him.
But slick still refutes the claims saying since he is a hunk a lot of ladies have a crush on him and this creates an impression that he dates them all which isn’t true.
It was also rumoured that DJ Slick Stuart was dating his workmate known as Sheila Nduhukire after photos of both leaked when they were two close to each other. The latest one who has joined the list of those being taken to be Slick Stuart’s girlfriend is Etania who is a presenter at NTV.
