caption years_active label article_title record_label background genre image origin name
olugendo marakas cover , kabanda on guitar , bakkabulindi on unknown -- 1999 real world records bernard kabanda
 real world records group_or_band kadongo kamu olugendo.jpg kampala bernard kabanda
bernard kabanda

bernard kabanda sslongo -lrb- 1959 -- 4 september 1999 -rrb- was an ugandan guitarist .
he had just realised fame in the world music circuit through his appearances at womad in the usa and the uk in 1999 before he died of aids less than two months after his performance at womad 's reading festival , aged only 40 .
before he died , he recorded an album with womad , called `` olugendo '' .
he was discovered in the streets of kampala , uganda 's capital , playing on a guitar he had made himself out of scrap .
he was content to play solo , or with simple tin-can percussion as he played in pubs in kampala , and he did so also in his womad tour , where he played with samuel bakkabulindi sslongo , who played makeshift shakers and tin-cans with drum sticks .
