Esther Nabaasa’s long-awaited album released

Finally Esther ‘the body’ Nabaasa’s long awaited album was released yesterday in South Africa. It survived the February 7 robbery attack at the Gallo Records that left the album’s sound engineer with s gun shot wound ion his hand..
The album titled, Rock in Country Soul was released yesterday in South Africa and will soon be available for purchase all over the continent this coming week.
In an interview with a Ugandan newspaper, the Monitor, Esther explained why the long wait for the album: “The recording label Gallo was going through massive internal restructuring, which even entailed the physical bit of them relocating their offices, so they put me on hold until they sorted themselves out. And the type of contract I had signed with them, forbade me form singing with anyone else until I first worked on my first album.”

Robber who attacked TPF11 winner arrested

One of the robbers who attacked TPF11 winner Esther ‘the body’ Nabaasa, her manager Tshaka Mayanja and Sound engineer Johan was arrested early last week on Monday.
The attack that happened early last month at Master Max Studios in Johannesburg at about 10.30am left Johan with a gunshot wound in his hand and the robbers making away with money valuables from the studio. Master Max studios is a sister studio to Gallo Records and is located at Johan’s home in Johannesburg. Esther escaped unharmed.
In a recent interview Tshaka revealed, “Johan called me on Monday and told me the police had arrested one of the thugs and were closing in on the rest.”