Muwanguzi Luis

Muwanguzi Luis Kayinamura (born 10^th October, 2001), known professionally as Luis Kaymur, is a Ugandan born producer, rapper, singer and songwriter majoring in genres Dancehall, Afro dancehall, Afro pop, Reggae, Gospel, Rnb, Pop, Rock, Imo rap, Trap and Hip-hop. He is signed to Messiah Records formally known as Badass Records. Born in Mityana district, Uganda and grew up in Jinja city, eastern Uganda. Kaymur is Rwandan by tribe, Christian (Anglican) by religion and is the firstborn of all the four children Col. Thomas Alan Kalanzi Karega has. In 2021, Luis released his very first single(About It) produced by producer Poki at The Core Music Hub, Jinja which went live on Spotify on 26^th July, 2021 and registering its first 200 streams in a period of only 7days from the release date.

EARLY LIFE

Muwanguzi Luis Kayinamura was born in Masaka district on 10^th October, 2001. His father Col. Thomas Alan Kalanzi Karega is a military officer working closely with the government of Uganda with his office based in Jinja City, Senior Command and Staff College, Kimaka. His mother Sarah Nakawungu is a business woman as well the step mother Faith Kakai. As far as Luis can remember, he spent a bit of his childhood in Kampala city in a place called Kitante before the family relocating to Masaka in around 2004. In Kitante, Luis got his very first ride, a tricycle from his dad at the age of three. This was after Luis as an innocent kid, was spotted by his parents fighting and struggling for a friend’s tricycle calling it his. That day, the mother made sure she convinced him that the tricycle he was struggling for was actually not his at all. Luis understood what the mother had told him and from that day onwards, he would stand by the roadside as his friend rode his tricycle in search of a chance to ride too. When his father noticed this, he made sure he surprised him with a brand new tricycle to ride too. This made Luis deeply happy and hence the father-son bond grew stronger. Around 2005, the family relocated to Masaka district following Mr. Alan’s transfer in terms of office. In Masaka, Luis lived with his cousins at the grandmother’s place where they all learned new virtues and cultural practices based on Buganda. However, not only did Luis learn these virtues, but also learned how to play local games such as hide and seek, tree climbing, jerry can riding, tire riding and dodge ball among others. As he learned these games, his dad enhanced his playing by buying him a new bicycle and sponsoring his swimming lessons at Tropic Inn hotel Masaka. In 2011, Mr. Alan relocated to Jinja district following another transfer. Towards the end of 2012, Luis was befallen by his parents decision to get him circumcised, which they successfully achieved at Rippon Islamic Hospital, leading to a change in Luis’ dress code from his usual clothes to kanzu for a period of one month. From Kimaka, the family relocated to Nalufenya (still in Jinja) before going to Rwanda in 2013. In 2013, the family relocated to Rwanda following another transfer of Col. Alan. The family’s going to Rwanda did not interrupt the children’s education. They always went back to Uganda to study and had their holidays in Rwanda. While in Rwanda, the children got to discover more of their relatives, who they who they had not met before including their grandfather Gideon Kayinamura, their uncle Ernest Kayinamura and their aunt Soni Kanamugire among others. It is in Rwanda that Luis learned how to play lawn tennis at Ibirunga tennis court, Musanze (Ruhengeri) and became a master at it and he registered it a new hobby. The family’s stay in Rwanda was worth it as the children got familiar with their language. These were efforts of Col. Alan who hired a Kinyarwanda teacher for Luis and his sister, Lisa whereas Leon, their younger brother learned the language from his school, (Wisdom Primary School), Musanze. The family stayed in Rwanda for two years and went back to Uganda in 2015. On going back to Uganda, they settled in Jinja district up to date. In 2017, Mrs. Sarah separated with Mr. Alan, hence the children welcoming a new step mother (Faith Kakai) in 2020, as well as a new bouncing baby girl, Lynn Rose Mbabazi Kayinamura.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Luis Kaymur is an educated individual who has gone as far as the advanced level of education (2021). Kaymur offered Fine arts, ICT, historical and entrepreneurial subjects. With the influence from his parents, he started his education journey as early as 2006. This never left the legend the same as it sparked off his early exposure to different knowledge. Luis attained education in a number of schools at different stages. Luis attended to schools like Leos Junior Academy (Nyendo), Masaka, Windows International School, Mbarara, Mother Kevin Primary School-Nsambya, Kampala, Victorious Primary School (VES)-Ebenezer Campus, Mukono, Seeta High School-Main Campus, Mukono, Kyaddondo Secondary School-Matugga, Wakiso district and finally Forest Hill College-Bwefulumya, Mukono.

Leos Junior Academy. (2006-2007).

Leos Junior Academy is a school in Masaka City (Nyendo) with a kindergarten and primary sector. This was where Luis attended his kindergarten from. At Leos, Luis was described as a shy, humble, hardworking and self-motivated learner. There are two things Luis will never forget at Leos Junior Academy, and one was skipping a class. Luis innocently skipped the middle class during promotion. The year 2006 ended and Luis alongside his classmates were promoted to the next class (middle class). However as kids, they knew nothing about promotion and so when they came back to school in 2007 after their holidays, they all went back and sat in the same classroom (baby class). Their teachers found themselves tasked to correct them and transfer them to their new classrooms as middle class pupils. During the transfer, Luis was the very first student to enter the classroom (middle class). On entering the classroom, Luis spotted mathematical calculations on the blackboard that looked really difficult. These calculations had been put by pupils from the primary sector, who had been using the classroom for discussions. Due to the scary calculations, Luis immediately evacuated the middle class classroom without being noticed and went to a classroom of the highest class in kindergarten (top class), in which he found comfort just because it had an empty blackboard. The other memory was being left by the school bus. Luis was a day scholar by then and was always picked up by the school bus from his waiting point to school and from school to his waiting point where his mother always waited for him. One evening, he was left by the school bus and decided to walk back home via the main road. On the bus’ arrival at the waiting point, Luis’ mother checked for him in the school bus, only to discover that he had been left behind. Ms. Sarah. N was forced to board the school bus back to school in search of her son. Luckily while in the school bus, Ms. Sarah managed to spot her son walking on the main road back home without paying attention to the traffic on the road. She immediately went out of the bus and saved the son from getting lost. In 2007, Luis graduated from kindergarten and joined the primary/Grade level in 2008, at International Window School, Mbarara.

International Window School, Mbarara. (2008-2011).

In 2008, Luis was admitted to International Window School, Mbarara where he studied from primary one to primary four. To Luis, joining this school felt like he had joined another strange world, reason being it was his very first time in a boarding school. On top of this, the school was located in western Uganda, a region that speaks totally different languages from the one he knew. Mbarara district in particular spoke Runyankore and Rukiga as the only local languages, and yet he only understood Luganda, a language from the central. This made it difficult for Luis to make friends, as well as understanding concepts which teachers explained in Runyankore. With this experience, Luis was forced to learn and speak Runyankore and once he learned, he made a number of friends and his academic performance skyrocketed too. Luis topped his class for two consecutive years (2009-2010), always in the first position. This earned his mass recognition in the school as an academic giant, as he was always appreciated and called out for recognition on school assemblies for his outstanding performance. In 2011, Luis’ academic performance declined a bit, and this to some extent was a result of poor conditions that he had started facing in the school. The porridge at the school cafeteria no longer had sugar at all, and yet it was the only drink the school offered. Also, lot of his property was stolen. This traumatized Luis and he asked his dad for a change in school. Mr. Alan fulfilled the son’s wish and took him to Mother Kevin Primary School, Nsambya.

Mother Kevin Primary School, Nsambya. (2012).

Towards the end of 2011, Luis sat for an interview examination at Mother Kevin in which he scored highly, and joined the school officially in 2012. Mother Kevin was a boys’ school and being a boys’ school, the major sport was football. It was in this school that Luis learned how to play football. Luis’ stay at Mother Kevin was short-lived, as he spent their one year only. This was because Luis was beaten by a teacher using a broom, just because he had been standing while others were sweeping the compound. Luis had finished sweeping his part however the teacher did not ask, she instead grabbed him and hit him with a broom and this way, the broom sticks entered Luis’s hand leading to his hospitalization. With this experience, Luis’ parents took him to Victorious Primary School (VES) in 2013.

Victorious Primary School (VES), Ebenezer Campus, Mukono. (2013-2014).

In 2013, Luis joined Victorious Education Services where he started enjoying a new and better life. That year, Luis’ academic performance which had declined in 2012, skyrocketed once again which amused his father. Amused by Luis’ performance, Mr. Alan paid for Luis’ school trip to Dubai as the year came to an end. In 2014, Luis found himself in a candidate class for the very first time. He was to sit national examinations that year. That year, the school welcomed new students and among them, Luis won himself a girlfriend. (Khulud Anwar). Khulud was the most beautiful girl in the school and all students believed so, including fellow girls. In this year, Luis fell in love with a movie, Iris, which inspired him to use dangerous means to get boys off his girlfriend. However, this backfired when Luis went beyond his limits and pushed his friend, Dennis Roy off a building. This attracted a lot of attention from all the students, all the teachers and the entire school administration; hence Luis was summoned by the school administration on that matter. The administration did not only summon Luis, but also a number of witnesses who testified against Luis. They also reported Luis for dating Khulud since dating was not accepted at school, leading to the breakage of the school celebrity couple. Luis’ parents where invited at the school and matters where sorted. Luis finally sat for the Primary Leaving Examinations, and completed the primary level hence upgrading to High school.

Seeta High School-Main Campus, Mukono. (2015-2017).

In 2015, Luis joined high school and started with Seeta High School main campus in Mukono. This was where the music dream started from. Luis and the friends were suspended from school for slapping his enemies in school while, they are sleeping. Luis went back home but while at home, Luis felt like life had come to an end. This was because education was all he knew as the only way to success, like his teachers always told the students. He was wondering what he would do if education failed him, as it looked like education was beginning to fail him, given the fact that he had got his very first suspension in 2017. During the suspension, his dad grounded him in his room and asked him to keep in there, and read his books for the entire suspension, given the fact that he was supposed to be at school studying and not relaxing. However, one evening, his mother (Sarah) allowed him come out of the room, so that he could watch some TV given the fact that work without play makes Jack a dull boy. Luis came out to watch TV and switched on a channel which caught his attention, as he saw a celebrity young girl in his age bracket taking on an interview. She was an artist. Luis felt challenged by the girl. This was because she was making money while still in school, and she was popular. This made Luis ask himself “BUT CANT I??” one question which has kept him moving upto date. Luis immediately went back to his bedroom even before the end of the show. In his bedroom, Luis tried to write a song as challenge for himself, and to be able to answer his “BUT CANT I??” question. Luis tried in all ways he could but failed to come up with a song and most especially, the topic of the song. After a good number of attempts, Luis finally managed to come up with a beat of his own, but had no topic still so he paused everything. When he went back to school, he found his crush being fingered. This broke him so badly that he got what to write about in the song. Luis wrote a song called everlasting love which he sampled his friends, and they immediately fell in love with it. It then became a competition as his friends challenged him in song writing. A lot of good came out of this as Luis’ experience in song writing improved day by day. However, as the saying goes, “too much of anything is always bad”, indeed it became bad, as Luis focused more on his music than his academics. Luis would sit in the classroom and as he paid attention and got bored, beats would start playing in his mind out of nowhere, and he would end up writing songs instead of paying attention in class. This to a larger extent led to a decline in Luis’ academic performance. At the end of the year 2017, Luis was asked by the school to change environment, due to his bad academic performance that year. Luis therefore changed environment in 2018, and went to Kyaddondo Secondary school for his senior four.

Kyaddondo Secondary School, Matugga. (2018).

At Kyaddondo, Luis learned a lot in life as he found all kinds of students, the holy, the evil, the good, the dangerous, the weird and all kinds of crime were very possible in this school. However, musically, he improved as his RnB, Hip-hop, Rock and pop were unpopular in this school. He therefore ventured into other genres like Afro, dancehall and reggae in order to prove himself. Towards the end of the year 2018, Luis sat for his Uganda Certificate of Education examinations and concluded senior four. For his advanced level, he went to Forest Hill College.

Forest Hill College, Mukono. (2019-2021).

This was another school of totally bad memories and according to Luis Kaymur; this was the worst of all schools he ever attended. This is because Luis was not liked by the school administration at all, because of his great influence among other students. This was portrayed by many of the administration’s actions such as publicly suspending him from the protectorate body, sabotaging different events where he invested money hence losses, a big number of attempts to expel him from school and worst of all, calling the cops on him during his final Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education examinations, just because he had refused to leave school when they suspended him. The head teacher (Were Jane) went as far as admitting her bias towards Luis in her office. Luis, Zion Oops and YBKPO among other friends never lost hope despite the administration’s hatred. They believed it was just a season which had to come to an end someday. On 3^rd May 2021, the three superstars among other friends sat for their final examination and left Forest Hill College once and for all. The trio had planned to the very first song together but unfortunately, this did not happen due to the lockdown that was as a result of Covid-19. Therefore on 21^st June, 2021, Luis hit the studio and recorded About It, which he officially released on 26^th July, 2021.