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‘I lost my self-esteem due to depression, became suicidal,’ says musician Buka Chimey

Musician and mental health advocate Buka Chimey. PHOTO | FILE | COURTESY.

David Musolo, alias Buka Chimey, is a recording and performing artiste-cum-mental health advocate. His purpose of using his artistic abilities to unify cultures, celebrate life and express consciousness, was brought to an unexpected halt in 2020.

During the Covid-19 pandemic period, he grappled with several emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety.

“I felt so lonely, and constantly told myself that I am a failure, which turned me into an alcoholic just to feel better. I then started developing suicidal thoughts.

I almost took my life at some point because of this constant voice that kept resounding in my head,” he narrates.

Depression is a mental health condition that can cause severe symptoms that affect a person’s feelings, thoughts, and ability to function in daily life, while anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.

For Chimey, the two were triggered in 2019 when he recorded a song titled Beer After Beer, a re-fix of Parte After Parte by Big Tril. Beer After Beer became Chimey’s first hit song.

“As my career was skyrocketing in 2020 during the lockdown, we had a catchphrase Biluma Abayaye started by Zex Bilangilangi and Chozen Blood, from which I then created a song from called Biluma Abayaye. As the song was gunning good visibility, my brother Crystal Panda created almost a similar song and called it Bino Byebiluma Abayaye, which I thought since I had infringed on Big Tril’s intellectual property with Beer after Beer I had paid for my sins, but little did I know that this would be the genesis of my depression,” he explains.

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