Rugiatou Jallow, fondly and artistically called Rugie, is one of the Gambia's sprouting female sensations, currently making names in the country's music scene.

Born on January 15th, 1989 to a Gambian father and a Senegalese mother, Rugie, a native of the Gambian coastal town of Bakau, is a dynamic, ambitious and talented young musician, who has the potentials to hit the world music scene someday. Her first performing experience started as a primary school kid, during which she was also receiving music lessons. At the tender age of sixteen, Rugie started recording songs professionally as the other half of a duo called 'Girls 2 Girls' alongside Princess who was also her best friend.

As a budding musician, Rugie was inspired to write and record songs by the sounds of Viviane N'Dour, Beyonce Knowles and Destiny's Child, Mary J. Blige, India Arie and a few other prominent RnB, Mbalax and Soul superstars.Before her eighteenth birthday, she was already being recognized in The Gambian music scene as a very promising young talent. With the 'Girls 2 Girls', Rugie went into a collaboration with another budding Gambian Rap crew called 'Hood Hustler's on a song titled 'Life inda Ghetto' recorded at the famous BullDoff Studios under the supervision of the late M.J (R.I.P), who also played a mentor's role for Rugie by encouraging her  to keep on singing.

Even by providing backing vocals with her sweet voice for her Rapper cousin TopMan, her style of music varies from Afro-RnB, Mbalax, Soul and Reggae, which combined together, creates her soulful unique sound of music with her majestic voice, which attracted and prompted a host of companies and radio stations to use her services on jingles and advertisements. It was through the fee generated from producing a Christmas jingle for the mobile telephone company (Africell) that Rugie and Princess (Girls 2 Girls) were able to go into the studio to record their next song called 'Puppy Love' which didn't end up hitting the expected heights and Rugie later went solo after Princess fell out of love with singing and performing.

During a steady progress in Gambia's showbiz by recording solo and being part of collaborations and on 'riddims' most notably the 'Independence Riddim', a duet with Snow Eazy on a hit song called 'Tattoo', and further solo efforts on songs 'Burning Desire', 'All Ma Ladies' and 'Yaga Na Lawl' a song on the 'Roses Riddim' and another duet with Trobul Smallz titled 'Ring On Ya Finger' in 2008.

Rugie finally blossomed after providing backing vocals to probably and arguably the biggest hit song ever (Liv It Up) 2009 in The Gambia performed by a prominent Gambian Pop/Reggae sensation-Freaky Joe aka Sing-A-Teh. 'Liv It Up' dominated the airwaves and requests for live performances at the different events meant Rugie was exposed to different levels of the music business by listening and learning from more established artists.

As they say, the rest is history now as she was  recently been signed by Gambia's biggest music label (Music-O Records), only the best and greatest is expected from this gifted and soulful 21 year old musician.