Spice Diana Biography: A Hitmaker Shaking Uganda Music Industry
Namukwaya Hajara Diana, also known as Spice Diana was born in 1992 in Mpererwe Kampala district to a family of Nantale Beatrice who raised her as a single mother who started her music career early and studied at Makerere University.
Her first manager was Dr Fizol of Avie Records, and she was later managed by Twinkle Star under a fellow musician Kalifah AgaNaga in 2016
Namukwaya Diana aka Spice Diana Spice Diana’s mother was reportedly forced to get married at the age of 14 years and after getting married a few months later she became pregnant later giving birth to Spice Diana.
Spice’s family shifted from Mpererwe to Kibuli because her mum had got married to a new husband who was staying in Kibuli. They later separated and spice’s mum shifted with her children to Nansana later shifting to Nakulabye were singing dream started from according to her.
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She is the firstborn with other two siblings and she says she has been a mother and father because her mother has been a single mother since she was born and raising them has not been an easy journey.
Diana was educated at Varreria primary school which is based in Kibuli Kampala district and according to Spice’s mum, she participated in most of singing, dancing, designing competitions at the school and she emerged out as the best.
Spice was not only good in entertainment but was also an academic giant and according to her mum she was once told by the school administration to sit PLE exams for a student who was sick and was unable to do her exams.
She sat for her and the student passed with flying colours.
The following year Diana sat for her PLE exams and scored 11 aggregates. After her primary level Spice Diana joined St. Peter’s senior secondary school and Kampala Citizens School has she scored 32 aggregates in her O level.
After her secondary level Spice Diana joined Makerere University where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Arts and Design in 2018. Spice Diana struggled to balance music and academics this is because most of the time her lectures could collide with her lectures.
Namukwaya says she didn’t expect to end up as a musician but when she joined Kampala Citizens School for her A level she developed the passion of singing.
She joined a group of rappers and she was the only girl in the school group though she was discouraged by her mum and told her to switch styles which she did and wrote her first song called Nze akwagala.
During her A level, spice connected with the Triplets and she acted as a backup artist in some of their songs because she had a sharp voice like for kids where she later connected with artists like Maro, Geosteady who linked her with producer Fizol of Avie records who produced her first hit song titled Onsanula in 2014.
In 2015 she collaborated with Pallaso and released another club banger titled Koona still under Avie records.
After leaving Avie records Spice Diana joined the Twinkle star management of Emma Carlos who was the then manager of Khalifa Aganaga.
In 2018 Spice Diana held out her first concert at FrontPage hotel which was a successful concert and in 2019 he went to Freedom City which was a bigger location and she carried out another successful concert and the location was filled.
Spice Diana currently owns two houses, one located on Salaama Road where she stays, a 6 bedroom mansion she has built in years.
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