As time goes by, women have proven that ‘what a man can do, a woman can’. This also applies to the music industry, where some genres were previously solely done by their male counterparts.
Angel Mutoni is one of the few promising female Hip-hop and R&B artistes in Rwanda. Her music is a blend of RnB-Hip-hop, with a fusion of Afrobeat. She is also a poetess.
The 27-year-old was born in Uganda, and she was a little baby when her family moved back to Rwanda and then to Canada a few years later.
Her stage name is Angell, as she wanted to be creative and there are so many people named ‘Angel’. Since she was around four years old, Angell would always say that she wanted to be a singer if someone asked her who she wanted to be when she grew up. But she was very shy, and did not do much singing then. She even considers her shyness one of the challenges she faced when she started singing.
“It was something that I loved, and a lot of times when I would think of what I would do in the future, that would always be the first thing that I would imagine,” Angell Mutoni tells The New Times in an interview.
She was born in an artistic family. Her father was a musician, and used to teach her music, and she developed an interest for it, at a very young age. “I grew up around a lot of music, and I think that influenced me,” she says.
Source: The New Times
