Do all this and it will turn out to be pop. Banal pop. There is other music for this.

you obviously know nothing about Rwandan, burundian, and banyamulenge culture. the "laughing" and other things you complained about such as her performing alone is how we actually perform in our culture. yes, you'll see videos on KZfaq of rwandan, burundian or banyamulenge performing with others, but in our culture perfumong alone is actually very common. you really can't make what you saw in other culture the standards.

@@Angekosha Apart from the fact that you have no idea whether you know more about African culture than I do, I have played, performed and developed educational projects with African people from different countries for years; the problem, however, is that you clearly either cannot read or do not understand what is written. African culture is very much an oral culture and that means that you can have a solo artist, but it is essential that the audience understands what is being said. When an audience does not understand what is being sung, there is no communication. When you perform for a European or Western audience, you should take this into account. If you don't want to do that, you are quite rude to your audience. And the African people I worked with were very interested in knowing how their music and culture comes across to Westerners. Unfortunately, you don't understand anything about people who are interested in each other's culture and you only see criticism as 'not understanding African culture'. And that is exactly the problem that has existed for years, people who think that people from another culture cannot know or understand their culture. It was the reason why many Europeans had a low opinion of African culture. And now you're doing exactly the same thing but in the other direction. I took the time to listen to the performance and then to write down my criticism. If they are wise, they can think about it and who knows, who knows, they might improve their performances enormously if they want to perform in front of Europeans more often. And will they have to change their music... oh... if they are here for a while they will also have to change their food because what you can get in Africa you can't get here even in the best shops. But even with different food you can remain yourself and that also applies to your music. Gone are the days when an entire African village was brought to Paris to exhibit. But it is not yet the case that the average European knows much about Africa, and that means that culture bearers must do everything they can to make the culture accessible. And you don't do that by thinking that we in Europe know nothing about Africa nor how African culture can be made more accessible.

@@ybor20 I'm sorry if I misunderstood you but are you trying to say that she should've change the way us Rwandan, burundians and banyamulenge people have been preforming for hundreds of years toplease your so called "audience"? and notice how I said that you clearly didn't know anything about rwandan, burundian, banyamulenge culture and not just African culture? I think you're the one who has a problem with this, because I've seen and been to a performance that was performed JUST LIKE SOPHIA"S PERFORMANCE and trust me, the crowd was absolutely pleased. Idk what African culture you learned from but that culture is beautiful in its way. if I misunderstood you pls correct me.

@@Angekosha For more than ten years, since my retirement, I have been mainly active in Vietnam. But until about 15 years ago I organized children's activities for Izere in the Netherlands for years and that was a very mixed group of Hutu and Tutsi. The aim was to help the children to actively participate in typical (well) Dutch activities based on their cultural background. We had a lot of support from the parents, especially the mothers, the fathers were too busy discussing political matters. Although I talked a lot about the situation privately with the chairman and I also received many books and other information material, in return I donated my collection of unique French recordings that were not available in Africa. However, during the activities I completely avoided political and other problems. To me they were not Hutu or Tutsi, even though I could often tell the difference, but they were children. And in answer to your question: wether I'm trying to say that she should've changed the way Rwandan, burundians and banyamulenge people have been preforming for hundreds of years to please the so called "audience"? That question makes it clear that you really don't understand. First of all, you don't do something like that to 'please' the audience, because you are busy spreading your culture and then you first look for commonality, and yes, sometimes you adapt for a while. A culture that is so old can really have that, but apparently you are incredibly afraid and you think that culture is so vulnerable. Which once again confirms that you understand nothing about that culture because that culture is not only centuries old but has endured a lot and survived. Not thanks to people who are afraid that they will lose their culture if something is adjusted, but simply because of people who, based on the power of their culture, immediately convert almost every adjustment into something unique. And that's what it's all about: You don't believe in that culture, you are afraid that every adjustment is a destruction, you are probably not a musician or artist because they see every adjustment as a challenge and they do trust their culture. . But I have to admit, I have worked with so many Tutsi and Hutu for years, but I always forgot to ask whether they were Rwandan, Burundians or Banyamulenge. Not that those cultures don't interest me, but they didn't come to live in Europe because of the nice weather. It usually took a while before they told me more about their background. About the culture they had to leave behind and the new culture they have ended up in.