DJ Karo Biography: the life of Kampala’s beloved female disc jockey
Karo, who is also a professional basketball player and coach, had been an avid music listener since she was young.
You probably know her as DJ Karo but her real name is Carol Kisukye Ndilima. DJ Karo was born in Kampala. She is the last born of four and the only girl.
Her mum, Christine Rwakanuma, is from Kashari in Mbarara and the father, John Kisukye, is from Eastern Uganda.
She went to Aga Khan Primary School, Kabojja International School (secondary) and Limkokwing University of Creative Technology in Malaysia (Business Information Technology).
DJ Karo started enjoying music at a young age. After graduating, she worked in the marketing department of MTN Uganda.
After a year at MTN, she moved to Dash Events, an events company owned by Tendo Kagwa (brother of Gaetano Kagwa) and Paul Kaheru.
Its offices were separated by a fence from Zone 7 Bar & Restaurant (which is also owned by the Kagwas).
So, after work, she would hang out at the bar sometimes and while conversing with deejays, including celebrated ones like Aludah, they noticed she had great taste in music and encouraged her to learn to deejay.
She was initially reluctant. She finally yielded and within a month and a half, she was mixing at Zone 7.
Karo, who is also a professional basketball player and coach, had been an avid music listener since she was young.
When she joined Twitter, she started sharing a playlist every Friday that included her favourite songs. Her followers liked the jams she listed and always looked forward to the lists.
At Dash Events she also lasted a year and left in 2012 to start a company called M-idea to offer digital marketing services to companies.
One of her first clients was Samsung. She convinced them to sponsor an event called Samsung Twitter Party and this launched her professional deejaying career.
People who attended the party started offering gigs and she settled for corporate events.
Kinetic Management Group, which is owned by Cedric Babu Ndilima, her boyfriend, offered to manage her.
She said she would only accept two deejaying gigs a month since she was running a startup. DJ Karo still runs her business and is also involved in a number of other sports projects.
