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New Single "We Are Beautiful" Available Exclusively on MOA for Purchase
World Vision Sponsors Canada Leg of Forgiveness World Tour
World Vision will sponsor the Forgiveness World Tour in Canada in support of Jean Paul's message about Forgiveness.
Jean Paul Wins 2010 RCA Artist Award
Jean Paul has been nominated and selected as the 2010 RCA Artist Award Recipient by the Rwanda Convention Association.
The recipient of this prestigious award is someone who makes an intensive and concentrate
Jean Paul performs in Rome
ROME CAPITAL OF PEACE
THE MAYOR ALEMANNO PROMOTES
THE COUNCIL FOR DIGNITY,
FORGIVENESS AND
Forgiveness World Tour comes to a City Near You
Jean Paul Signs Exclusively to RKD Music Management
Jean Paul Samputu headlines Toronto film screening
I knew we were in for a special evening when the voice of award winning Rwandan artist Jean Paul Samputu filled every corner of the Bloor Cinema with a stirring acapella rendition of his song, “No More Genocide”. His message about the need for forgiveness and the importance of the future generation in Rwanda’s healing process were a perfect introduction to the first Toronto screening of Rwanda: Hope Rises, a documentary film by Director Trevor Meier.
Samputu dismisses IBUKA's 'Negationist' accusations
Rwandan singer, Jean Paul Samputu, on Tuesday, scoffed at allegations that he's a negationist. The accusations were made by Theodore Simburudari, while addressing thousands of mourners during the 15th anniversary of the 994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
"He must have misinterpreted the message. I have never forced anyone to forgive, or repent whatsoever. The message was totally out of my own experience," Samputu said Tuesday afternoon at The New Times offices during the interview.
'Never Again': Artists perform for mourning Rwandans
Musicians, both local and regional, on Tuesday, performed for thousands of mourners, in Kicukiro District, Kigali, where a ceremony to commemorate 15 years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, was presided over by President Paul Kagame.
The ceremony to remember and pay tribute to the over a million people who perished during the genocide, attracted Rwandans, and delegates from different corners of the world, including famous musicians from the region.
Rwanda: 15 years after genocide, artist calls for teaching forgiveness to children
As Rwanda marks the 15 year anniversary of the horrifying genocide, Rwandan artist Jean Paul Samputu called upon Rwandans to focus on children as they talk about reconciliation. “We need to have a new generation, a generation free of resentment,” said Samputu during BBC’s ‘Imvo n’imvano’, a popular weekly radio show in Rwanda’s vernacular “Kinyarwanda’. The radio programme is broadcast to Rwanda and its neighbouring countries of Burundi, Uganda and partly Congo from the BBC studios in London.