Back home: Before she left for Canada six years ago, Jocelyne Tracey Keko was perhaps the best female hip hop artiste in Uganda. But like any other artiste, circumstances did not let her enjoy her reign and while in Canada, several rumours came up linking her to drug abuse and addiction and her outburst episode at the Coke Studio where she had gone to represent Uganda in Nairobi was the final blow.
Welcome back home. Are you back for good or just visiting?
I am back for good.
Why had you gone to Canada?
They had given me residence and permanent residence status, so I took it. While there, I also went to school at the Toronto Film School for about two years where I learnt film production but when I graduated in 2019, Covid-19 hit right at the time when I was coming back home so I was forced to stay a little longer.
It has been almost two years since the pandemic. Why return now?
My time was done. I felt like I needed to come back home and concentrate on my music and film career because I have been away for so long and I did not want to feel like I was giving up on my dreams because that is all I ever wanted to do………CONTINUE READING………..