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Amani Gracious

Kenyan gospel singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ66126615
Source-derived summary

Amani Gracious (born 8 May 2005), Known popularly as Amani G is a gospel singer from Kenya who went viral on social media and got many people's attention including the American singer Alicia Keys by singing the cover of her song "Girl on fire" at age of 13.

Biography

She released her first single "Sitasahau" and signed by the Pine Creek Records she was also double nominated for Maranata Global award in 2019

She released her first single 'In love' featuring Vivian, followed by 'Ni poa' featuring Pitson. Her third single called 'Asante' featured her younger sister Pendo. On 2 December 2018, Amani G launched her debut album 'My reflections at 13' at the Alliance Francaise Nairobi to a sold out crowd.

Her last single from the album 'Nisipotee' was released in 2019. In May 2019, Amani G won the 'Young Groover' award at the Groove Awards. She had also been nominated for 'Best Collaboration' Award for her song 'Ni poa' featuring Pitson.

Amani G joined Busara Academy in 2019 and took a break from releasing music to concentrate with her studies.

On 15 October 2021, Amani G released a new single called 'Uonekane' with many fans commenting about her vocal developmental and her new image at 16.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Amani Gracious” is kenyan gospel singer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Amani, Gracious and Kenyan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2019, 2018, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-05-08. For this dossier, Amani, Gracious and Kenyan is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “kenyan gospel singer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q66126615. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2019, 2018 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Amani Gracious” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.