{"id":24147,"date":"2016-03-25T09:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/scotland-musician-to-join-rwandan-artistes\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T09:55:08","slug":"scotland-musician-to-join-rwandan-artistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/scotland-musician-to-join-rwandan-artistes\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland musician to join Rwandan artistes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Iain Stewart, a Scotland artist wishes to collaborate with Rwandan artists for the progress of Rwanda\u2019s music industry. In an interview with IGIHE, Stewart said that he was attracted to Rwandan music after producing a song \u2018Rwandan Dream\u2019 with Rwandan artist Jean Paul Samputu.}<\/p>\n<p>Iain Stewart who has married a Rwandan woman, Umutesi Marie Jeanne said that he considers Rwanda as his second country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11168 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iain_and_umi_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Iain Steward married a female Rwandan \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>He said that he knew much more about Rwanda after meeting Samputu where they collaborated and released the first album in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Stewart met Jean Paul Samputu and got interested in Rwandan recordings. That was when Rwandan legend Jean Paul Samputu invited him to Rwanda to record a love song called, \u2018Window of Peace.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Stewart says that this first recording has been the beginning of love affair with Rwandan music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat began my love affair with Rwanda, the beautiful country people and its music.  The song, someone recently told me, was a prayer for Rwanda. A prayer for the future of the country that it would continue to move forward to learn from its past and become the great country that it always had the potential to be,\u201d said Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart says that he loved the experience of recording and working with Samputu and the producer Pastor P. As he said they knew there was something special in the music they were creating. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat had started with a plan to create one song became a whole album which was released late 2014. Songs from the album such as Rwandan Dream were really taken to people\u2019s hearts they really spoke to people. Music from that album has played all over the world. I always believed that music had the power to bring people together and break down the barriers and there was something powerful in this music,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>This artist explained that after completing the song of Rwandan Dream he had a burning desire to keep making African influenced music. <\/p>\n<p>As part of entertaining Rwandan fans who asked dance floor beats, he released another song called \u2018\u2019Nicheze Nawe\u2019; which was produced by Pastor P who is also seen acting in the video. The song is about a man who falls in love with a girl at first sight and they only have one night to spend together as he is passing through the country. And they want the night to last forever. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzZj4V3DiQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video was shot by \u2018Cre8tive Entertainment\u2019 in Glasgow, Scotland and it was a fun video to do.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart says that Rwanda has so many talented artists .He thinks it\u2019s their time to show the rest of the world just how talented they are and wishes to contribute more to the progress of Rwandan artists which he has started.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart has recently written a song for Teta Diana, co-writing a song for Mani Martin, Ado Dorcas of the Blessed Sisters and a song for an up and coming artist called, \u2018I Am Blameless.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11169 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwandan_dream_ni.jpg\" alt=\"Iain Steward collaborated with Jean Paul Samputu to produce &#039;Rwandan Dreams&#039; in 2014 \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Iain Stewart, a Scotland artist wishes to collaborate with Rwandan artists for the progress of Rwanda\u2019s music industry. In an interview with IGIHE, Stewart said that he was attracted to Rwandan music after producing a song \u2018Rwandan Dream\u2019 with Rwandan artist Jean Paul Samputu.} Iain Stewart who has married a Rwandan woman, Umutesi Marie Jeanne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147","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=24147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}