Added: Apr 11, 2016

Mr OJ is a highly motivated musician who believes that his disability should not lead to an inability to be proactive in changing his own life and wider society for the better.
Biography
Opoi Julius, professionally known as Mr OJ, was born in Palate Aputi village, Tubur sub county, Soroti district, in eastern Uganda in 1986. He is the first born son of the late Mr Arieu William and Ajego Stella. Mr OJ's father sadly passed away when his first born was just one year old. Due to a violent clash between rebels and the government, which left hundreds dead, Mr OJ's mother was forced to raise her two young boys in an internally-displaced people's camp for more than eight months. Later, Mr OJ's mother married another man from a distant area of Uganda and the two boys were subsequently raised by their elderly grandmother. Mr OJ started his primary education in 1995 and completed in 2002. His uncle then took care of Mr OJ and his brother, supporting Mr OJ through his secondary education, which he completed in 2007 at Soroti secondary school.
Mr OJ was keen to further his advanced education, but finance was sadly not available. Mr OJ found himself educated and motivated, but had little to focus his energies on. However, it was at this point that he got particularly inspired by music, which he had loved with a passion since childhood. He set about learning to play the guitar and started to write songs. In February 2007, he was fortunate to be sponsored to record his first two singles with Dyno Records, in Uganda. Mr OJ has performed at prestigious events including the International Day for Disabled People, organized by UN OHCHR in December 2007, and the Warid Telecom launch in Teso sub region.

His début, locally produced album titled “Disability Is Not Inability” was released in 2007 and his second album “Turwa” was launched in Soroti on 12 December 2008. In that same month, he licensed the song “Turwa” to AMREF/Guardian Newspaper UK, for use in a documentary.
In his home area in eastern Uganda, Mr OJ is a well-known musician and receives considerable press and other media coverage.
In April 2009, Mr OJ won support from Nomadic Connections of Canada, to receive vocal training, mentoring and professional recording and production of two songs, with Chillum WOODS SOUND in Kampala, Uganda. The song “Disability Is Not Inability” was re-arranged and re-recorded, alongside a new song called “Ngai Onene”.
He has been also supported by Lillian hammarstrom from south Carolina in America.

Mr OJ is determined to develop his musical abilities to support himself and his family. In 2011 and 2016 Mr. Oj was lucky to be one of the musicians in his home region who performed at president Yoweri Museven’S campaigns and being disable musician many organizations that run events of disability have branded him as an ambassador in his struggle as a disable musician.  on 16-05-2014 and event organizer called Teso nite based in Kampala used OJ as a guest artist to fundraise for the pwd children and 1000.000 was fundraised. Mr OJ  is a performing Artist, a singer, a touring artist living in Soroti district Eastern Uganda. Has done a number of duets or collaborations with very many famous regional artists and He is the only artist in the region who runs charity causes to support his society with his little earnings from his music, OJ has supported the education of children with disability in the region by providing them with scholastic materials