Dancer

Sheebah Karungi

Ugandan musician

Born 1989 · KawempeUganda
Sheebah Karungi
Image: Gracenalubega · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Sheebah Karungi is a dancer, born in 1989 in Kawempe.

Biography

Sheebah Karungi (born on 11 November, 1989), Commonly known as "Queen Karma", and Sheebah, is a Ugandan musician, dancer, actress and feminist activist.

She debuted her acting career in Queen of Katwe as Shakira. After quitting Obsessions, a dance group she joined in 2006, she started making music and later rose to fame and she was recognised after the release of her hit single "Ice Cream". In 2014, she released her debut project Ice Cream, a five-track EP which did well commercially and led her to win back-to-back HiPipo Music Awards Best Female Artist in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. She also won the Artist of the Year award twice, in 2017, 2018, and 2019 at the HiPipo Music Awards. In 2024, she was appointed vice president of the Uganda National Musician Federation assisting Eddy Kenzo who is the president of the federation.

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