The government has challenged the public to support music to bolster talents especially among the youth.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (MIJESPOC<\/span>) Protais<\/span> Mitali<\/span> noted that many youth are engaged in music and arts which has helped in creating employment.<\/p>\n Mitali<\/span> said this last Friday during the 2010 Salax<\/span> awards ceremony at Kigali\u2019s Expo Grounds where he was the Chief Guest.<\/p>\n He said that there was need to support artists in order to boost the local music industry.<\/p>\n \u201cI wonder when a singer is on the stage singing and the public remains seated as if you are unhappy to the extent that singers themselves have to request you to stand up to urge them on ?,\u201d Mitari<\/span> challenged.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s high time you support the local music and boost your local music industry. It is from your support that these artistes will be motivated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Mitali<\/span> also challenged the musicians to enhance professionalism, adding that the government would facilitate them to ensure the industry becomes proficient.<\/p>\n The Minister later awarded trophies to the best male and the best female artistes of the year 2010 which went to Tom Close and Miss Jojo<\/span>, respectively. Salax<\/span> are national music awards that single out music artistes and producers for their creative and positive contribution to the music industry every year. The awards are now in their third year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The government has challenged the public to support music to bolster talents especially among the youth. The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture (MIJESPOC) Protais Mitali noted that many youth are engaged in music and arts which has helped in creating employment. Mitali said this last Friday during the 2010 Salax awards ceremony at Kigali\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[278],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-joram-muhoozi"],"bylines":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}