User talk:Apollomusic

Who's Apollo (Ndayikeze Apollinaire)?

The Life of Apollo
Apollo's a Singer,Songwriter and Composer born in Burundi, at Masango Village, Mutaho Commune in Gitega province on 16 June 1980. He started loving Music at the age of 7 and would turn anything into a song. From the age of 14, Apollo became separated from his parents due to the ethnic war and survived in exile in Tanzania. He organized to go to school alone and depended merely on his own from primary school to Secondary school. He's a hard worker. Moreover, He personally paid for his University studies at NWMD International University. So far, Apollo holds an International Diploma in Counselling and a degree in International Marketing.

In 1997 while being in exile, he established his own Music Band with friends before joining a CNDD-FDD Youth Movement the following year. There, he sang Freedom and Liberation Songs together with classmates at Dove Secondary School. He also joined another Music Club led by the yet-unknown talented song writter and composer (DUDU FREDDY) in 2000. His success in writting and composing songs depends on what he learnt while working with DUDU FREDDY. At the same time he was singing in a Swahili-Choir of the Roman Catholic Church before he was a born-again and became a member of 7th Day Adventist Church. Regarding belief, He was always interested in knowing the truth about the Word of God. He later became a Jehovah's Witness member but changed his mind after finding some controversial teachings. He than joined Truth Ministry Church in Mozambique after being attracted by the teachings of two missionaries (Ben & Greg) originally from Durban, South Africa.

Apollo was always a brilliant student at school. He's a man of languages. Currently he communicates easily in English, French, Portuguese, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda despite the fact that his mother tongue is Kirundi. After completing his nursing training, he worked as a Volunteer Nurse with Tanzania Red Cross Society for a period of 4 years. After than, he moved to Mozambique where he learnt Portuguese before going to South Africa where he currently lives.

Key People in Apollo's life

-In 1998 while being in Tanzania, he met a family of N. Aaron that offered free lunch to him while he was studying at Dove Secondary School.

-In 1999, a priest known as Njebarikanuye Leonidas offered grocery, clothes and shoes to Apollo. -In 2003 in Tanzania, N. Epimac- Buterere donated some money to Apollo before leaving for Mozambique. -In 2006 while surviving in Mozambique, Apollo met one South African Misionary whose name's Greg Boswarve, a Pastor who offered him some cash to respond to his life needs. -In 2008 while recording his demo, he met Ms Rivoningo, a South African angel who liked his music and promised to pay for his recording charges under Rivoningo Music cc. She then became her personal Manager from 2009 and managed his Debut Album "Yehova Ni Mkuu". She's also featured on the song "Yehova Ni Mkuu", the name of album. Despite being his Manager she also inspired him. -He also met many other supportive people and he's thankful for their tremendous endeavours.

Contrary to lots of Burundian artists who are not Internationally known except K. Jeanine, Apollo believed that music of any kind must carry message in an International languages rathan than Kirundi and Kiswahili. It ought not be sounding in an old style. He developped the idea that music must basically attract the youth and then the old and the elder. To achieve this he fisrt sat down and made new fresh modern beats. He also relied on the conception that Music means the message carried in the song not the beat where the message comes from. He believed that his Music should be a legacy of all the time to more than thousands of generations to come. He also viewed Music as an Intellectual Property that must be subject to copyright.

Apollo also relied on the idea that his music must carry a message understandable to too many people. For instance some of his songs are in English which makes him popular among English speaking countries whereas other are in Kiswahili a language spoken by Eastern Africa countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi (In all major Cities), DRC, Uganda, Rwanda in the Capital city and Mozambique (Cabo Delgado, Pemba and Nampula lessly). He also have a song in Portuguese language and Sotho. His self-titled debut album was released in 2009.