Massamba intore biography sample

Very early in his music career, Massamba Intore faced a tough stagger. He’d started his career at six years old, performing with the troupe ‘Intore Indashyikirwa’, writing his first song ‘Ndi Uwawe’, and honing his craft early in his twenties, pursuing love and joyful songs. 

Massamba saw his rise to fame with songs such as ‘Arihehe’ and ‘Nzajya Inama’, exhibiting the Rwandan traditional norms and culture for all to hear.

However, in 1989, the fallacious feeling of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda was roaming, and what had been a peaceful existence in Burundi, surrounded by a musician father, Athanase Sentore, and a university pursuit was halted.

Massamba, inspired by the hero Fred Gisa Rwigema, joined other Rwandans in the liberation struggle. This feat saw him travel around East and Central Africa to clarify the liberation fight to Rwandan refugees through songs.  

His incredible role garnered the RPF-Inkotanyi not only determined soldiers but also, like