{"id":39650,"date":"2019-07-10T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hip-hop-star-priest-father-uwimana-to-grace\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:46:39","slug":"hip-hop-star-priest-father-uwimana-to-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hip-hop-star-priest-father-uwimana-to-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip hop star priest, Father Uwimana to grace African Festival in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festival is organized by Andreas Kraft who invited Father Uwimana.<br \/>\nUwimana has told IGIHE that he will perform various songs focusing on Rwandan culture.<br \/>\n\u201cI will participate as an African. There are many Rwandans living in German, Poland and France who will attend the festival. It is a great milestone in my music career,\u201d he said.   <\/p>\n<p>Father Uwimana revealed that his performance will be characterized by songs like \u2018Kana k\u2019iwacu\u2019 which features Rwandan culture and will be accompanied by traditional ballet for performances that expose his country\u2019s culture. <\/p>\n<p>Among others, he will perform his songs in Zulu beat and others associated with traditional culture. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect a growing audience of my songs and talent promotion but the ultimate goal is to help people spread the word of God. The performances are related to culture because a person lives the culture before knowing God. Indeed, God is pleased with a good culture,\u201d said Father Uwimana.  <\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Nyundo Diocese, Father Jean Fran\u00e7ois Uwimana was ordinated priest five years ago. He embraced Hip Hop beat three years ago. He has been popular for his songs in different beats bringing excitement to the youth. <\/p>\n<p>Father Uwimana has other songs like Nyirigira and Araturinda which talks about his life as a karate student with dreams of becoming a hip hop artist.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0m7M1c5KTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30626 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-2700-65f63.jpg\" alt=\"Father Jean Fran\u00e7ois Uwimana was ordinated priest five years ago.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30627 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/logo-55-9fc15.jpg\" alt=\"Uwimana said that he will perform various songs focusing on Rwandan culture.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30628 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/176f70f3-17e1-4f80-bc86-865dad6dd1c4-165e3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30629 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/padiri_w_umuraperi_ashaka_kwamamaza_umuco_nyarwanda-57e77.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic cleric who turned hip hop star, Father Fran\u00e7ois Jean Uwimana has been invited for African Festival scheduled from 15th to 30th July 2019 in Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}