She handed over her song, her platform, and a piece of her spotlight — all in the name of kindness. And according to Cindy Sanyu, she got burned for every single one of those decisions.
In a candid interview with Galaxy TV, Uganda’s self-proclaimed King Female has broken her silence on the fallout with Omega 256 following their smash collaboration See You Tonight. The hit that had fans celebrating two of Uganda’s biggest female voices has apparently left a very different story behind the scenes — one involving disputed awards, a broken revenue agreement, and a 50/50 deal that Cindy says quietly became 60/40 in someone else’s favor.
And that someone was not her.
Cindy didn’t arrive at this interview looking for sympathy. She arrived with receipts.
According to the singer, the cracks began appearing the moment See You Tonight started winning awards. Rather than celebrating jointly, she claims Omega’s team moved to claim full ownership of the accolades — repeatedly.
“When we got our award for See You Tonight, her team claimed that they should be the ones taking the award. Every time we got an award, they felt like they should be the ones, but the song is mine.”
That word — mine — carries significant weight here. Because Cindy’s argument isn’t just about credit. It’s about the entire origin of the project. She says she sourced the songwriter, composed the track in her own studio, and drove the creative process from the ground up. She further alleges that Omega’s team made no financial contribution toward the song’s production.
So how did it end up feeling like someone else’s song?
That’s where the story gets really uncomfortable.
To understand the full picture, you need to know who these women are. Cindy Sanyu is one of Uganda’s most decorated female artists — a veteran of the industry with a catalog that spans decades and a reputation for delivering commercially and critically. She goes by the self-appointed title “King Female,” and the fan base that backs that claim is not small.
Omega 256 is a younger artist who, at the time See You Tonight was being conceived, was still building her footing in the industry. The collaboration was seen by many as a passing of the torch — an established heavyweight lending her platform to an emerging voice. It was widely praised as a generous and powerful move.
What the public didn’t know was what allegedly happened once the song took off.
Fans immediately noticed the weight of Cindy’s words during the Galaxy TV interview — particularly the moment she described the decision that she now openly calls a mistake.
In an effort to give Omega’s career a boost, Cindy agreed to have See You Tonight uploaded on Omega’s YouTube channel rather than her own. She didn’t need the attention. Omega did. So she stepped back.
“I made a mistake out of my kindness and we split on her channel. I didn’t want to take the attention away from her, so I decided we put it on her page because she needed the song more than I did. Even when it came to distribution of the song, she went way ahead of me.”
And then — this is the part that has people talking — Cindy revealed that a formal revenue-sharing agreement had been signed. Fifty percent each. Documented. Agreed upon.
She claims that after the song was uploaded and the royalties started flowing, that agreement was not honored. Omega, she alleges, received 60 percent of the earnings. Cindy received 40.
A signed deal. And allegedly, ten percent quietly disappeared from her side of it.
The internet had thoughts — and they were not holding back. Comments sections erupted within hours of the interview circulating online, with fans debating everything from contractual obligation to the emotional cost of generosity in the music industry.
Some fans immediately began questioning why Cindy agreed to upload the song on Omega’s channel in the first place. Others argued that the move, however well-intentioned, handed over leverage that proved difficult to recover. The phrase “I made a mistake out of my kindness” landed particularly hard — clipped, shared, and quoted widely as a cautionary tale that goes well beyond Uganda’s music scene.
Within hours, the interview clip was being dissected across platforms, with listeners parsing every word for clues about what the relationship between the two artists looks like now.
Some fans believe this interview is the opening move in a longer public dispute — that Cindy’s decision to speak now signals she has exhausted every private avenue. Others feel the emotional honesty of her delivery suggests someone genuinely processing a wound rather than strategically playing to cameras.
It’s unclear whether Omega 256 or her team will respond publicly. No statement had emerged at the time of writing. Sources close to Uganda’s music industry suggest the fallout has been an open secret in certain circles for some time — with those close to both camps privately aware that the collaboration had soured long before today’s interview.
What remains unclear is whether the revenue dispute was a contractual oversight or something more deliberate. Either way, Cindy is now saying it out loud.
At its core, this isn’t just a music industry dispute. It’s a story about what happens when generosity meets ambition, and nobody’s looking out for the person doing the giving. Cindy didn’t just offer Omega a song — she offered her channel, her production resources, and a conscious choice to dim her own light so someone else’s could shine brighter.
Whether that generosity was taken advantage of, or whether the truth sits somewhere more complicated, only two people fully know. But the cost of that kindness — ten percent of royalties, a fractured friendship, and awards she says were taken from the room she deserved to hold them in — is now part of the public record.
Here’s the irony that stings the most: the song was called See You Tonight. But after everything Cindy has described, it sounds like the last thing either of them wants is to see each other again — period.
Cindy Sanyu came to that interview composed, clear, and carrying a ten percent deficit she says she never agreed to. The real question now is whether Omega 256 has anything to say about it — or whether silence will be the loudest answer of all.