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Kamichi

Rwandan musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ16866517
Source-derived summary

Adolphe Bagabo, commonly known as Kamichi, is a Rwandan musical artist. He is distinguished by his unique and hoarse vocal delivery.

As a child, Bagabo sang in local choirs. The 2009 release of the single "Zoubeda" brought him national popularity and won him a Salax Award in 2010 in the category of "Best Song of the Year". The same year he also won a Salax Award in the category of "Best Afrobeat Artist". He released his second album, Ubumuntu, in 2012. He has collaborated with many Rwandan artists.

As of August 2013, Bagabo is completing studies in Journalism and Communications at the Catholic University of Kabgayi. He worked as a journalist for Voice of Africa (Rwanda)|Voice of Africa in Rwanda.

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The public source identifies “Kamichi” as rwandan musician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kamichi, Rwandan and musician.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kamichi, Rwandan and musician providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16866517. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Kamichi” 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.