There are various paths that young musicians can take to produce their first album, but few, if any, have taken one like John Moook.

Special correspondent, Tom Keshado, has that story for our Arts and Culture series, Canvas.

John Mook is a 31 year old singer-songwriter.

He's skilled of melding the sounds of America with those of his homeland. How he came to be that way you look at me

sending she vests down my spine

how he came to be that way well he'll tell you it wasn't exactly preordained.

He grew up on the outskirts of Kempala, Uganda, far from even the most basic amenities of the city.

We didn't have tap water. Me and my friends, we would meet up with jerrycans and we would go to the well bring water.

That's what all the guys did.

The only music he knew as a kid was what was played locally.

There is 50 tribes and each tribe plays their own kind of music.

I was not really exposed to Western music because growing up I didn't have a TV and I only owned the radio to listen to football.

Then one day he visited the home of a cousin who had a CD of the song,

We Are the World.

That was the moment everything changed. We Are the World.

That was the moment everything changed for John Moo.

And I put it and played it and there were many artists. I didn't know most of them.

You had never heard Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen? No.

But I listened to that CD till it could not play anymore. I was mindblown. He immediately set out to learn guitar and

privately at least to sing in English. At school no one knew I think. Why were you shy about it when you're such a good singer?

I could barely speak proper English and it was just my friends thought I was crazy.

He says he only felt self-assured when he sang for kids in the street.

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