At the age of 21, Esther Nabaasa auditioned for the east African singing competition
Tusker Project Fame in Kampala and won and then represented Uganda in the Tusker Project Fame Academy in
Nairobi Kenya. She survived weekly evictions during the live stage performances until she emerged the winner, becoming the first Ugandan to win on the Tusker Project Fame stage and any singing competition outside Uganda. She was awarded a recording deal with South African-based Galo records and a five million Kenyan shillings prize. She released her debut 11 track album called
Rock in the Country Soul in 2009. The album was recorded at Master Mixx Studio, a subsidiary of the
Galo Records in
Johannesburg South Africa under the Tusker Project Fame deal she had won in 2007. She released her second album in 2013. She then started writing and producing songs for other artist. She, together with Barbara Kayaga, Hum Kay,
Ruyonga and Richard Kaweesa wrote and sang
Yoga Yoga for the celebration of Uganda's jubilee independence in 2012. The writing of the song was however attributed to Richard Kaweesa leaving Esther who owned 31% of the song and the others with only singing credits.
Nile Breweries also commissioned Esther and Kaweesa to write another song
Sip from the Nile that same year, also for the jubilee celebration. Her other writing credits are on
Bebe Cool's 2014 album
Go Mama, "
I'm Still Here" and other songs from
Juliana's album
Bits and Pieces and a number of songs on
Gabriel K's debut and second albums in 2018 and 2019 respectively. In 2018, she wrote and produced music for Natasha Karugire's war historical film
27 Guns, singing some of the songs. Nabaasa also appeared on other reality singing competitions such as Coca-Cola Rated Next season three as a judge alongside Siima Sabiiti. ==Discography==