 Before choosing a path in music, Ssematimba worked as a primary school teacher.He relocated to Stockholm, Sweden in 1991, when he was 21 years old.While performing in night-clubs to pay for his computer studies, he met Kenneth "Mafo" Ssejjemba Magoye, a fellow musician, who introduced him to Aggrey Ssembatya, the proprietor of "Small Axe Productions".