\n \u201cHe was a peaceful man who loved her mum with a passion. When he visited us, he would offload his fatigue of at Lake Kivu shores, reading books ,\u201d said one of his sisters.
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\nWho is Papy Safa John}}<\/p>\n
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<\/figure>\nPapy Safa John was born in 1966 in Nyamyumba sector, Rubavu district where he did his primary. In 1978, he went to Belgium to study hotel management.<\/p>\n
He returned to Rwanda in 1984 and worked in various hotels including H\u00f4tel des Milles Collines and Hotel Diplomate among others.<\/p>\n
From 1984 to 1990, Pappy played piano in \u201cLes Huit Anges.\u201d In 1990 he headed for Kisangani where he continued his music career.<\/p>\n
On return to Rwanda in 1993, he spent a short time living with his family in Gisenyi before going to Kigali where he resumed his music career and working in hotels.
\nIn 1994, Pappy and his relatives fled to DRC to return in the country after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. In 1995 Pappy married Uzamushaka Madeleine and they were blessed with three children.<\/p>\n
In 2000 Pappy released his first album called \u2018Umutima Ucyeye\u2019 that included many songs of which he became a popular loved artist. <\/p>\n
In 2003 Pappy Safa John represented Rwanda in Festival the festival ofPanafricain de la Musique (FESPAM).<\/p>\n
Pappy released his second album in the year 2010 .In 2014 he announced the suspension of his music career which he resumed in July 2015
\nHe dies being a popular artist of original songs in famous bars and hotels .<\/p>\n
His burial was attended by various artists including Makanyaga Abdul, Ngarambe Fran\u00e7ois Xavier , Eric Mucyo, MC Lion Imanzi, MC Monday, Patrick Gihana, Aimable Twahirwa and other underground artists.<\/p>\n {Papy Safa John\u2019s melodious voice flickered out when he succumbed to diabetes this week at CHUK. He was 49. As he was interred yesterday, an aura of sadness clouded about, with mourners held in deep grief for the star that bowed out in the middle of his life. His wife, Uzamushaka Maderena, with a creasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070895,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21911.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/a2540da932db5e18926448c119f85d71.jpg\")
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