1. "Shanks Gumaras amadinda Shanks Gumaras Shanks Gumaras formerly known as Shanks Vivid composed his name out of his Childhood idol Shabba Ranks."
2. "He choose the first three letters on Shabba Sha and the last three of Ranks nks to come up with the phattest Shanks." 3. "Shanks is regarded as the godfather of Ugandan dancehall." 4. "In 1993 Mr. Huub Gales approched Shanks to run an evening show on Capital fm, and in the same year Charlie Lubega was so impressed he put Shanks on Angenoir disco theques payroll." 5. "Rise and Shine Shanks was even bigger now as he mingled with top music producers like Steve Jean and Peter Sematimba."
