I grew up in a religious family. We understood God by going to church, and by our deeds. I was never allowed to go out of the house to do any visiting, or playing with my neighbors for the fear of any eventualities like accidents or anything else. The musical me kept haunting me. Truthfully, I found peace in music;  singing, song writing and dancing too. I learnt songs by their lyrics to the dot. I repaired a dead radio just to listen to music from radio stations. This kind of got me into trouble at some point, because I was meant to cram my notes in the books not lyrics or words in the song. Hehe!!!

Who am i? My name is Aaron Sounds, real name Aaron Kateera. I am a musician, multi instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and strong, staunch servant of God!.

I began writing music in my senior two, at a school, St Henry’s College Kitovu. That’s when I discovered the other musical side of me. Since then, I have written hundreds of songs, solo acts and collabos inclusive! During that time, I did various arts like dancing, performances, sports, etc. The musical me kept developing slowly by slowly. I moved from St Henry’s Kitovu to Seroma Christian High School for my Senior four to senior six. In other words, I was sparked and had to look for another school. The experiences in both schools were different. Now that’s where my transformation began.

When I moved to Seroma, I made up my mind just to finish my S.4 and find another school. But I found home, a life and peace. And this prompted me to go back for my A-level.

I commited my life to Jesus Christ in my senior five, kind of recommitted, because I remember the first time I did so, I was in my P.7 vacation when I sneaked out and went for a fellowship at some church!

From my senior five to senior six, I longed for seeking and serving God in various ways, most especially the school choir because that’s where I found my number one purpose. Disclaimer; I didn’t know how to play instruments at that point of time, I was just a singer, songwriter and an intercessor. I pursued God intensively, served in the school ministry so much because my hunger for God was real. I pushed through my High school, finished it and there I was, A campuser. Still one to today, pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture.

Now this version of me in this story was confusing, to myself also! The Christian me kind of faded slowly by slowly. I kept searching for identity outside. I found myself part of certain groups of people I never thought I could join. I did stuff I never thought I could do. This went on for about one year and half. I moved from church to church. I had not yet found a home church since I left high school. Then I joined some campus ministry. I was torn up in two worlds at the same time. The most weird part of it, was serving God on a “hangover”. You can imagine!

That was another point of time of discovering another side of me, the desire for fashion. I luckily became a part of a fashion shoot with a reknown fashion guru, Abryanz, by winning a certain pictorial competition. This somehow lifted my search for purpose in life. So I became more real with myself in search  for this purpose for my life.

The turning point in my life was joining a church called Watoto; How did this happen? Putting in mind that I have heard about this church for while, but didn’t want to check it out the fact that the word Watoto is a Kiswahili word meaning children; so I thought it is children’s church. A friend invited me for one of the church events there in 2014. I had to accept the invitation. When I arrived there, I was blown away by what happened then, the music, the drama, the worship experience, the presence of God, and the youthful spirit in the area. That left me star struck that day, So I declared that I wanted to be part of whatever was happening there. It’s now three years since I joined the church and so many amazing things have happened since then. I got to learn so many things and meet quite a number of new friends.

For the past year, I have gotten chance to meet people who have supported me on this music journey that I decided to take. God has been so great through it all and so much is in stalk for the world to experience. in more words, I could say that, “The atmosphere of expectation is the breeding ground of miracles.”