Doug B

By The Puzzle

Do you have Gospel Talent? Do you have the voice, the stage moves and the confidence? Then ALPHA ONE RECORDS under the patronage of one of Uganda’s finest Hip-hop / R&B producers DOUG-B is looking for you.

B's been around the industry for some time now and can be clearly remembered for lacing a beat for rap quintet Klearkut's track BAD MAN STATUS off their album K2. He said,

‘After carrying out research with a couple of individuals, I realised that the lots of talented kids were running away from the church into secular music due to lack of support from their mother churches, so I decided to pull them back by launching this project as a way of paying back.’

Application / registration forms can be picked up at the Kampala Pentecostal Church (KPC) reception area and at the Power (104.1) FM offices.

"Auditions for the project shall take place at the KPC timothy class with different music industry executives and radio station executives acting as judges throughout the elimination process", adds Doug

It does not only stop at each recording a CD for the winner; packaging, marketing, distribution and A&R for the winner shall be taken care of by ALPHA One Studios.

Hurry 'cause the deadline for registration is May 30th.

For more details you can call Doug B on 077 399981.

And from musicuganda.com, it is; MAY THE BEST MAN WIN!!!

This is not only a beginning; Alphaone and Doug B have organized a couple of gospel Jams and Alphaone Records is also on the internet!

Visit their web site @ http://www.alphaone-records.com

About Doub B and Alpha One Records

Doug B, Hip hop artiste/Producer introduces the new Alpha One studio

We are an RnB/Hip-hop based record label in Bunga. Here at Alpha One, we make things happen … great sound, great look.

Our vision is to spot talent and promote it. We work with the artist throughout the whole time they are in the studio. Currently, we are producing audio and the good news is that we are expanding our production to video shooting and editing. We have discovered that the need for quality video in Uganda is so big, so Alpha one is set to move in this direction by 2004.

Latest projects from Alpha-one

1. Come Forth for the North – A colabo with Sol Dre. This song is a dedication to peace in Northern Uganda.
2. Still Above – We are putting down tracks for a full album to be out soon.
3. Alpha one crew – Saint CA, Mista P and Doug B just dropped a single “Topowa” which was released on Power FM with DJ Mugie. We are yet to launch more tracks and plan to tour Nairobi in December.
4. W.O.G.S – We are working on their new album.

Doug B's background

When a hit is made, few people stop to know who has been behind the scenes, perfecting the song and making sure that everything is just perfect. Especially if the producer isn’t hungry for the glory, a phenomenon so common with modern day sound architects.

Such is the humble nature of Doug B, one of Kampala’s upcoming hip-hop producers or should I say, underground producers? He has already got the hip-hop lovers grooving with the likes of THUG Squad and GRP, especially during the Alliance Francaise show in Kampala last year. However who really is Doug B?

Born Douglas Mukisa Blessington, he got bitten by the music bug while attending church as a child of eight years yet he never got actively involved in music until fourteen.

“I never liked participating. I don’t know why. It just wasn’t my thing to go up on stage and entertain by then” he says, “It was the likes of Bobby Brown who really got me so interested that I decided I should become a musician.” Shortly after, Doug received Christ as his Lord and Saviour.

It wasn’t until his secondary school years that he became a leader of a gospel group known as Trophy C. By then, most of their performances were staged at Kampala Pentecostal Church and Rubaga Miracle Centre.

“By then, we were not based in any church as different members came from different churches. We released our first single ‘Cast your burdens’ followed by ‘Call on me’ in ’97. ‘Call on me’ made it to Kampala Top 20 because it was R’n’B.”

Later with the help of Pastor Okudi, the famous gospel musician, the group managed to release yet another single known as ‘Nakupenda’ which received quite impressive airplay in Kenya, especially on Nation FM in Nairobi, the capital. However the leader Doug B had something else in his mind with all of these developments.

“My dream was to have a studio in which I could explore and create music to my taste. So when I enrolled for computer training, I took up digital recording. Thanks to people like William Kemp and Scott Volz, I successfully completed my course and set up my own music label known as Freenet (now Alpha One) with my own studio carrying the same name in 2001.

The studio has released a number of tracks that include Nicholas Mayanja’s slow remix ‘Lord I lift your name on high’, ‘U don’t mess’ by THUG Squad, ‘Get your praise on’ by Jay Love, and not forgetting GRP’s ‘Leka Bogere’ and the recent one ‘You bless’ by THUG Squad and Doug himself just to mention but a few.

Since his early beginnings, what has been this producer’s most memorable moment?

“The success of ‘U don’t mess’ was quite surprising to me. I never thought that I would be received the way it was.”

“The greatest lesson I learnt was patience. Nothing happens in a day and every artist should have great discipline. Without it, their careers will soon wither. And they have to be real and get into music with real talent and be themselves.

“Music in a few years time is going to be bigger however the media should also stand in and support local musicians more than ever before instead of writing more about foreign artists. This I think should change as well as other things.”

Here is Doug B’s Email

dougtrophiec@hotmail.com

Visit the Alphaone web site @

http://www.alphaone-records.com