{"id":55098,"date":"2025-08-03T09:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/timaya-serenades-kigali-crowd-says-he-s-ready-to-marry-rwandan-woman\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:02:24","slug":"timaya-serenades-kigali-crowd-says-he-s-ready-to-marry-rwandan-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/timaya-serenades-kigali-crowd-says-he-s-ready-to-marry-rwandan-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Timaya serenades Kigali crowd, says he\u2019s ready to marry Rwandan woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Cold Outside” hitmaker made the revelation during his high-energy performance at BK Arena on Saturday, August 2, 2025, as part of the closing show for the Giants of Africa Festival. The night also featured performances by The Ben, Kizz Daniel, and Ayra Starr.<\/p>\n

As he stepped onto the stage, Timaya took a moment to express his love for Rwanda and its people. \u201cI love you all. You know that? I\u2019m happy to be here,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n

In between songs, the award-winning artist praised Rwanda\u2019s beauty and warm hospitality, giving special mention to Kigali and its women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to stay here forever. Rwanda is so beautiful, and Kigali is simply amazing,\u201d he said, drawing loud cheers from the audience.<\/p>\n

He then dropped the line that got fans buzzing: \u201cI\u2019m not married yet, but I\u2019ll marry a Rwandan woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Timaya has spoken about marriage. In a past interview with Nigeria\u2019s Naija FM, he admitted he had never tied the knot but hadn\u2019t ruled it out. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been married, but that could change. If I got married today and the woman started stressing me, I\u2019d leave. In my past relationships, I\u2019ve always been the one to walk away first\u2014I don\u2019t like drama,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Despite never marrying, Timaya is a father of four. He shares two daughters, Emmanuella and Gracey, with ex-partner Barbara Fumnaya Nwaokolo, a son named Tamar, and his youngest daughter Maya, whom he had with Dunnie Onasanya.<\/p>\n

This marks Timaya\u2019s second time performing in Kigali. He last headlined the Kigali Jazz Junction back in March 2022 at Canal Olympia.<\/p>\n

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Nigerian music star Timaya has revealed that he wants to settle down with a Rwandan woman, captivated by the beauty of both the country and its women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000091893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000091893,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6c9a9452-enhanced-nr-2-95467_logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55098","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55098"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55098"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}