Christopher Evans Kaweesi was born to
Christopher Kakooza, a construction worker and
Mrs. Kakooza, a housewife. His mother died while he was still a baby and his father died when Kaweesi was about 13 or 14 years old. He paid for his elementary and middle school education by performing menial jobs at construction sites and at school. He passed his O-Level examinations with flying colors, scoring 14 points in 8 subjects (the best possible score is 8). His paternal uncle, sponsored his A-Level education at
St. Mary’s Boarding Secondary School, Kitende, a good residential mixed high school, in
Kajjansi, off of the
Kampala-
Entebbe Road. At Kitende, Kaweesi studies
Physics,
Chemistry and
Biology, with Mathematics as a minor subject. He was admitted to
Makerere University on a
Uganda Government scholarship to study Agriculture. He enrolled, attended classes, but never graduated. Instead, he used the contacts at the university, to launch his musical career. ==Discography==