Lydia Jazmine

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Lydia Jazmine is one of Uganda's most popular female artists. She started as a backing singer, working with Radio and Weasel, Pallaso, Bebe Cool and Sheebah Kirungi. In 2014, while still a university student, she dropped her first song as an artist in her own name. It was called You Know and it made her a celebrity . She has more than 70 songs to her name, but it is only now, more than a decade later, that Lydia Jazmine is releasing her first album, The One and Only. As Lydia explains in this episode, few Ugandans make albums because their country's copyright laws are either not enforced or do not protect them, but artists like her are trying to change this. She shares her favourite tracks from the album including Stutter, which features Blu 3, a trio of Ugandan female singers who inspired Lydia Jazmine as a teenager.