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{{Kenyan actress Lupita Amondi Nyong’o has made history after scooping the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 86th Academy awards held in Los Angeles, California on Sunday night for her role in the movie 12 years a Slave.}}

She beat out her main competitor Jennifer Lawrence who had been nominated for the award for her role in the movie American Hustle.

{{Pharrell Williams will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Adele by taking home an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the Oscars 2014.}}

The producer and Vodafone Big Top 40 chart topper has enjoyed huge success with his track ‘Happy’ – and this could be the crowning glory for a track which also recently hit the top of the Billboard charts.

He faces competition from U2 with ‘Ordinary Love’ – a song which took home the Golden Globe and was recorded for the soundtrack to the movie Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. ‘The Moon Song’ in Her and ‘Let It Go’ in Disney’s Frozen make up the rest of the nominations.

The Oscars 2014 take place tonight (2nd March) live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

{Check out the full list of nominations for the Oscars 2014 below:}

{{Best Picture}}

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
Wolf Of Wall Street

{{Best Actor In A Leading Role}}

Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

{{ Best Actress In A Leading Role}}

Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

{{Best Actor In A Supporting Role}}

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

{{Best Actress In A Supporting Role}}

Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

{{Best Director}}

American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

{{Best Original Song}}

Happy (Despicable Me 2)
Let It Go (Frozen)
The Moon Song (Her)
Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

{{Best Animated Feature}}

The Croods (Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson)
Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner)
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)

{{Best Cinematography}}

The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki)

{{Best Costume Design}}

American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin)
The Invisible Woman (Michael O’Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)

{{Best Documentary Feature }}

The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty War
The Square
20 Feet from Stardom

{{Best Documentary Short}}

CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed)
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)

{{Best Film Editing}}

American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger)
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)

{{Best Foreign Language Film }}

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

{{Best Make-Up And Hairstyling}}

Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)

{{Best Original Score}}

The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price)
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

{{Best Production Design}}

American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn)
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)

{{Best Animated Short Film}}

Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares)
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)

{{Best Live Action Short Film}}

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson)
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)

{{Best Sound Editing }}

All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)

{{Best Sound Mixing}}

Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)

{{Best Visual Effects}}

Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)

{{Best Adapted Screenplay }}

Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)
Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze)
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

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{{The Comedy Knights’ new show will be served this Friday and it is all about culture: How do Rwandans live compared to other citizens of the world such as Americans, Congolese, Banyamulenge and others? As usual, two hours of finest stand-up comedy waiting for you, powered by Rwandan musicians.}}

{{“Formidable”! The title of Belgian musician Stromae’s hit song sums up the success of this young artist, who picked up three awards at the Victoires de la Musique, the French equivalent of the Grammys.}}

Other winners included French legends Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Hallyday, but it was the Belgian artist of Rwandan origin who won best album for “Racine carrée” at the 29th edition of the awards held in Paris’s Zénith Theatre on Friday.

Vanessa Paradis, best know internationally as the face of Chanel, being the ex-partner of Hollywood star Johnny Depp, and for French pop classics such as ‘Joe Le Taxi’, was on hand to accept the prize for best female artist 24 years after first winning the award.

She is the only woman to have won the prize three times. Only one male artist, Alain Bashung, has achieved that honour before.

Veteran rocker Johnny Hallyday was not present to pick up his best song award, but he thanked his fans via Twitter.

Another notable absence was that of French duo Daft Punk, who won big at the American Grammys but kept away from the French awards.

Stromae, who won best album, male artist of the year, and best music video for “Formidable”, took the stage of the famous Zénith Theatre wearing his habitual bow tie and pastel suit.

“One doesn’t play music to achieve success,” he told the Zénith crowd. “But if it brings success as well, then so much the better!”

{{The making of a maestro}}

Paul Van Haver, 28, best known by his stage name Stromae, was born in a Brussels suburb to a Flemish mother and a Rwandan father. His father soon left the family and returned to Rwanda, where he was later killed in the 1994 genocide.

Van Haver discovered rap as a teenager and went on to write for several well-known artists, including Anggun.

In the 1990s, Van Haver was swept up in the eurodance craze, which had a thriving scene in Belgium.

In 2011, he released his first album (“Cheese”) under the pseudonym Stromae. His nom-de-plume is the inversion of the syllables of maestro, a way of creating words that stems from “verlan”, a Francophone slang born out of the gritty Parisian suburbs.

His biggest hit, “Alors on danse” (“So we dance”), is about dancing to forget the economic crisis, desperation, heartbreaks and death. In the music video, Stromae lurches around, bleary-eyed, after drowning his sorrows in both dance and drink.

The song saw unprecedented success and was even remixed by Kanye West.

On stage, Stromae’s unique style makes him instantly recognisable. He wears knee socks and printed shirts and likes to incarnate different characters. He is impossibly lanky. His ears stick out. His eyes are enormous, green and unsettling.

“It’s the entire Stromae package that makes him successful,” Olivier Nusse, the head of Stromae’s label (Mercury/Universal), was recetly quoted as saying.

His lyrics, which tackle difficult subjects like sickness and his father’s disappearance, are nonetheless grimly humorous.

In the “Formidable” music video, the song’s throbbing beat stops abruptly halfway as a visibly drunk Stromae stumbles through the city streets and bumps into several policemen.

They ask if he’s had a rough night and tell him they are big fans. Then, after this daydream-like parenthesis, the music starts up again.

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{{Rwandan music group Urban Boys has announced the Release of new album Ansila on 07th February at Zoom side Resto&Bar commonly known as ‘kwa Venant’.}}

Speaking to IGIHE, Nizzo one of the group members of Urban Boys said the video is hot and ready to set fans on fire.

He also added the video clip was shot in Kigali(Kiyovu) and urged fans to show up in a big number at the video launch.

According to DJ Bissoso, one of the founders of Zoom side and organiser of this launch said apart from watching the video their will also be entertainment on the ground.

He finally added the youth below age 18 not to show-up because they are prohibited.

{Rwandan Rapper P.FLa commonly known as capital P has announced the completion of a 3 year deal with the bridge label records.}

P.FLa comes to bridge records replacing singer, fireman and Naason who ceased their contracts with the Bridge records Label, a former group mate and friend at Tuff Gang group.

Speaking to IGIHE Jacques Uwizeye the boss of bridge records, said the information was true and they have a long-term plan for P.FLa to improve and also add value on his Music career.

The rapper who is set to release his second album is considered by people as one of the best rappers in the country.

Currently Bridge records studio operated by 2 music producers including Junior Multisystem and feezy on Vocals.

{After being crowned Miss CBE (SFB), Uwase Samantha Ghislaine organized a visit to patients at CHUK hospital this Sunday 27th January 2013 to offer support..
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Some of the support that was offered to these young children (patients) includes bathing soap, Toilet papers, fruits, powder milk, and biscuits.

Among the others who escorted Samantha include other seven participants who were in the run on the position of Miss (CBE) SFB.

Speaking to IGIHE Samantha confirmed among their promises include supporting the youth in various activities which will be considered as a continuous project.

According to Samantha, other projects are awaited like providing trainings to the youth for development.

Miss CBE (SFB) aged 19 was elected on 19th November 2013 while the first run-up came to be Fabiola Fernandez akazuba among the 8 participants who had registered.