{"id":43029,"date":"2021-03-08T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/singer-ntawuhanundi-renowned-for-inyanja-song-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:10:53","slug":"singer-ntawuhanundi-renowned-for-inyanja-song-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/singer-ntawuhanundi-renowned-for-inyanja-song-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Ntawuhanundi renowned for \u2018Inyanja\u2019 song passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singer who succumbed to heart disease has been getting treatment at Kigali University Teaching Hospital (CHUK).  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, one of his children has said that his father died yesterday on Sunday 7th March 2021 around 7p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Ntawuhanundi told IGIHE that he was recovering with plans to resume work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been critically ill but I am recovering.  Two days before, I passed by the workplace to see the situation but I could not work immediately.  I will resume work within few days,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Ntawuhanundi dies after completing his album comprised of nine songs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, Master P who produced the album songs said he had already submitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had finished his album of nine songs including eight gospel songs and one ordinary song. I had already put final touches and handed it to the owner who expected to release it,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>John Ntawuhanundi dies at the age of 56. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37989 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/john_ntawuhanundi_yitabye_imana_afite_imyaka_56.jpg\" alt=\"Singer Ntawuhanundi renowned for \u2018Inyanja\u2019 song has died at the age of 56.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{John Ntawuhanundi, a legendary a singer who gained fame for his song \u2018Inyanja\u2019 has passed on. } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","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\/43029","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43029"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}