Popular Ugandan singer Cindy Sanyu has opened up about the fallout between her and fellow artist Omega 256, revealing that disagreements over awards and revenue from their hit collaboration, See You Tonight, damaged their working relationship.
Speaking during a television interview, Cindy said the problems began shortly after the song became a major success.
According to her, tensions first emerged when the duo started receiving awards for the popular track.
Cindy claimed that members of Omega’s team felt they deserved full ownership of the awards despite the project originating from her side.
“We got a couple of issues after, but it’s stuff I don’t want to talk about.”
“When we got our award for See You Tonight, her team claimed that they should be the ones taking the award.”
“Every time we got an award, they felt like they should be the ones, but the song is mine.”
The singer said she was disappointed by the situation because she believes she played the biggest role in creating the song.
Cindy explained that she sourced the songwriter, worked on the composition, and oversaw much of the creative process from her studio.
She further alleged that Omega’s team did not contribute financially to the production of the project.
The outspoken artist also admitted that some of the challenges may have resulted from decisions she made out of goodwill.
According to Cindy, she allowed the song to be uploaded on Omega 256’s YouTube channel instead of her own in an effort to help boost her colleague’s career.
She said she did not want the spotlight to shift away from Omega and believed the younger artist would benefit more from hosting the song on her platform.
“I made a mistake out of my kindness and we split on her channel.”
“I didn’t want to take the attention away from her, so I decided we put it on her page because she needed the song more than I did.”
“Even when it came to distribution of the song, she went way ahead of me.”
Cindy further revealed that both parties had signed a revenue-sharing agreement before releasing the song.
Under the arrangement, each artist was supposed to receive 50 percent of the royalties generated from the project.
However, she alleges that the agreement was not fully respected after the song was released and distributed.
According to Cindy, Omega eventually received 60 percent of the earnings while she received only 40 percent.
The revelations have sparked fresh debate among fans about fairness, ownership, and revenue sharing in Uganda’s music industry.
