ENTERTAINMENT: Dr. Ronnie Uganda, a singing military doctor in the Uganda People’s Defence Force affiliated with Bombo General Military Hospital, is over the moon following the successful release of his long-awaited five-track album he has named Echoes of Tomorrow.
Dr. Ronnie Uganda, whose real name is Ronald Mubiru, is a Ugandan musician doing dancehall and Afrobeat kind of music who has, through the period, dropped both solo and collaboration projects that have introduced him to a broad audience in the music market.
To elevate and maintain relevance in the circuit and his reputation musically, the singing military doctor has set off unusually in just a month of 2025 and has proved to rivals and fanatics that he is readily available to take on the local music arena by ability following his music missions.
The album “Echoes of Tomorrow” also features local musicians and has five songs that are collaborations, and among them are Tanto, Blue Tick, Kola, Highly, and Yole O’ole. It’s an album that the singer talks about with love and passion for music. The different songs went through legendary producers, musicians, and critics just to have the best of the best.
The ‘sompyo‘ singer also testifies how God has moved him from far to the current hub, talking about the thick and thin, including how he has survived and also won the most challenging situations around his life ladder since childhood.
The singing military officer, who sometimes refers to himself as a 3-in-1 man (doctor, military officer, and musician), has taken a new twist unique from the usual lane where military officers release morale-boosting songs. He doesn’t sing war or morale-boosting songs but does love inspirational and gospel songs.
“I have decided to drop an album and not singles because I want us in the forces to also create an impact and add a voice to the music arena,” he noted. Dr. Ronnie is the founder of the Daron entertainment crew who has just established Daron Records along Nakawuka-Nsagu Road.
Joining the Army
When Dr. Ronald Mubiru completed the medical course, he secured himself a job in a clinic at Nyanama, and as a starter, he was paid peanuts close to Ush 80,000 (22 dollars) monthly, which wasn’t enough to finance his expenditures, but this did not make him lose hope in all he did. As a believer and born again, Dr. Ronnie kept on praying and believing.
A few months later, the singing military doctor came across a job advertisement from the UPDF recruiting new health workers. He applied and went through the trainings. He went through UPDF training in 2011 for one year at Kaweweeta training school in Nakaseke district. After the training, he was commissioned on August 12, 2012, by HE YK Museveni, which qualified him to join the parade rehearsal when Uganda was celebrating 50 years since independence, standing in guard 24 at Kololo airstrip.
He was later deployed as a medical personnel in Kitgum government hospital in Kitgum district, where he worked for four years.
Dr. Ronnie has also gone on various missions in Somalia, including working in the field military hospital in Mogadishu city for a year in 2018. Currently, Dr. Ronnie Uganda is working at the general military hospital in Bombo.
