Sam Lucus Lubyogo alias Levixone was born on 7th December 1992, and is currently 27 years old. He was born in a family of ten children in Nakasongola and raised by his mother, Winnie Mutamba and step dad.
Levixone revealed that he never completed his formal education due to money constraints, but had a chance to attend St Joseph Mapeera Primary School in Kisubi for his primary, Grace High in Gayaza and Kasubi Secondary School.
With life taking a hard toll on his family, they relocated to Kosovo, a slum in the Kampala suburbs of Lungujja, but in 2012, he ran away from home when he discovered that the father figure in his life was not his real dad. This was reportedly because of the extensive beating and torture from his step dad.
“I didn’t know that the person I called my father was not my biological dad. I had never felt that I wasn’t his son until I was of school going age. I’d see him buy gifts and clothes for my sisters but not me. Most of my age-mates were in school but there seemed no plan for me,” he said.
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After leaving home, he became a street boy in Kosovo, surviving on manual and menial jobs. He even at some point joined a gang, but ditched it and went back home after his friend was killed.
During his street life, he met a gentleman called Teffe who always gave him marijuana to sell and he could pay him Shs100 daily. He later abandoned this job and headed to the City Centre after being told by a friend that he would get a better paying job and this job was selling water in buveera.
On his first day at the job, he slid and he poured the water on the ground. Driven my innocence, he reported the misfortune to the boss who rewarded him with a hot slap which still reverberates in his ears. He wasn’t paid for the mishap either.
After selling water for a full month without pay, Levixone was advised by his friend to sell water and disappear with the money and that’s what he did.
He returned to Kosovo jobless and homeless. He found an incomplete building where he started living and he started looking for a job again. He was given a job selling avocados and honey but it’s during this time that he joined boxing with his peers. The business became unsustainable and he resorted to garbage collection to be paid.
A couple of years after ditching the gang, Levixone visited Pastor Imelda Namutebi’s church with an aim of emceeing and dancing for money, but was surprised when they told him to sing instead. Without any gospel song in mind, Levixone created some lyrics and performed.
The audience liked his performance and gave him a lot of money. It was then that he met the late Marc Elvis and Crystal Fabulous. These two gentlemen gave him a place to stay.
His football skills earned him a sponsorship from Fields of Life who enrolled him back to school and it was at Grace High School in Gayaza that he realized his talent in music. He was inspired by the late Mac Elvis and at the age of 13, he recorded his first song.
Levixone has been in the music industry for several years and won a number of awards that include; Best Ugandan gospel artiste at Kenya’s 2016 Extreem awards. His track ‘Ponya’ won best song in the East African Ragga/Reggae category at the Maranatha awards for East Africa 2019.
