{"id":3014,"date":"2022-03-10T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2022-03-10T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:10:14","slug":"rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan music needs more support &#8211; Fireman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is after the former member of Tuff Gang appeared on some of the trending hits in town like \u2018Muzadukumbura\u2019 and \u2018Bafana Bafana\u2019 expressing challenges musicians face in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to this publication, the renowned rapper said that what drives him to speaking out for the industry in almost all of his recent songs is that local music lacks enough support.<\/p>\n<p>He said that music has come a long way and is slowly getting to greater heights in Rwanda, something he believes that musicians did by themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to that, Fireman stated that the Rwandan music industry can even make it to another level like Nigerian music if the government put more effort in it like other sectors, and also call private investors to invest in this industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese big countries in Africa all started like us. The Nigerian government called musicians who lived in other countries to return home promising them support. That\u2019s how big names like Davido, Tiwa savage and Don Jazzy changed African music\u201d he said, explaining how support played a big role in shaping one of the best genres of Africa, afro-beat.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue, in the second flow of Bafana Bafana, Fireman highlighted how foreign artistes are the priority in Rwandan events yet local artistes can also deliver the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RWANDAN RAPPER, Francis Uwimana popularly known as Fireman has urged the Rwandan community and government to support Rwandan music industry, noting that it can make a big impact in its growing and getting international recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12963,"featured_media":3011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[7,14,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-3014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-music","9":"tag-apie-project","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rwandan music needs more support - Fireman - APIE NEWS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rwandan music needs more support - Fireman - APIE NEWS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RWANDAN RAPPER, Francis Uwimana popularly known as Fireman has urged the Rwandan community and government to support Rwandan music industry, noting that it can make a big impact in its growing and getting international recognition.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"APIE NEWS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/apieproject\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-10T01:10:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-10T01:10:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/03\/telechargement-12-ce473c24210b18666510d7c90a79f23d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"183\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@apieproject\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@apieproject\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/2022\/03\/10\/rwandan-music-needs-more-support-fireman\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/appsaf.apieproject.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/399517cac378948cd7b39086f9ddc2a7\"},\"headline\":\"Rwandan music needs more support &#8211; 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