Somi (onye na-abụ abụ)

Laura Kabasomi Kakoma (amuru na June 6, 1981), onye amara dika Somi ma obu Somi Kakoma, bu onye amuru n'Amerika nke Grammy hoputara, onye na-ede egwu, onye na-ede egwuregwu, na onye na-eme ihe nkiri sitere na agbụrụ Rwandan na Uganda.[1] Somi bụ nwanyị Afrịka mbụ a họpụtara maka ihe nrite Grammy na ngalaba jazz. Ọ bụkwa onye Rwandan ma ọ bụ Ugandan mbụ a họpụtara maka Grammy. [2] Ọ bụkwa onye mbụ na-eme ihe nkiri East Africa mere na Broadway. 

## Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Somi na Champaign, Illinois, mgbe nna ya na-agụsị akwụkwọ post-doctoral na Mahadum Illinois na Urbana-Champaign.[1] Mgbe Somi dị afọ atọ, ezinụlọ ya kwagara Ndola, Zambia, ebe nna ya na-arụ ọrụ na Òtù Ahụ Ike Ụwa.N'ọgwụgwụ 1980s mgbe nna ya ghọrọ prọfesọ na Mahadum Illinois, ha laghachiri na Champaign, ebe Somi gara ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị nke University Laboratory na Champaign Central High School. O nwetara akara ugo mmụta mahadum na Anthropology na African Studies na Mahadum Illinois na Urbana-Champaign. O jikwa akara ugo mmụta Master na Tisch School of the Arts in Performance Studies na Mahadum New York. 

## Ọrụ
N'afọ 2007, o nyere ikikere maka abọm ya Red Soil in My Eyes na Harmonia Mundi / World Village maka nkwekọrịta nkesa mba ụwa mbụ ya. Ihe ndekọ ahụ nwetara otuto dị ukwuu site na egwu egwu "Ingele" nke nọgidere na Top 10 na US World Music Charts ruo ọtụtụ ọnwa.

N'afọ 2009, Somi jiri akara ndekọ nke onwe ya bịanyere aka na ObliqSound.[1] E wepụtara akara mpụta mbụ ya If the Rains Come First na North America na Ọktoba 27, 2009, ma mechaa rụpụta ya na mba. 2 na chaatị egwu ụwa nke Billboard na mba. 21 na chaatị Billboard's Heatseekers. Ndekọ a nwere onye South Africa opi Hugh Masekela, onye ndụmọdụ Somi ogologo oge, dịka ọbịa n'otu egwu. Na Maachị 2011, Somi dekọtara ọba egwu mbụ ya na Jazz Standard na New York City. E wepụtara ya na Palmetto Records na August 2011.

N'afọ 2013, Somi bịanyere aka na nkwekọrịta mbụ ya na Sony Music ka ọ bụrụ otu n'ime ndị omenkà mbụ na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke jazz Okeh Records. Abọm ya na nnukwu akara izizi The Lagos Music Salon, nke gosipụtara ndị ọbịa pụrụ iche na-enweta Grammy Angelique Kidjo na Common ma malite na # 1 na US Jazz Charts, sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ nke ọnwa 18 ọ were na Lagos, Nigeria. N'azụ ọtụtụ otuto na ndị na-akwado ya na-eto ngwa ngwa, The Huffington Post na akwụkwọ ndị ọzọ kpọrọ Somi "Nina Simone ọhụrụ". Na Machị 2017, ọ wepụtara Petite Afrique dị ka abọm nke abụọ ya na Okeh Records . Abọm ahụ, nke meriri 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album, bụ usoro egwu banyere nnukwu obodo ndị mbịarambịa West Africa na Harlem, New York City n'ihu ngwa ngwa gentrification. Ọ na-egosipụta onye ọbịa pụrụ iche Aloe Blacc.

N'ọnwa Julaị 2020, Somi wepụtara 'Holy Room - Live at Alte Oper' na akara nke ya Salon Africana . A họpụtara abọm ahụ, nke gosipụtara Frankfurt Radio Big Band, maka Grammy Award nke 2021 maka Best Jazz Vocal Album ma merie 2021 NAACP Image Award maka Outstanding Jazz Album, Vocal.

Egwuregwu mbụ nke Somi, Dreaming Zenzile, bụ egwu dabere na ndụ Miriam Makeba. N'afọ 2021-2022, egwuregwu ahụ malitere na The Repertory Theatre nke St. Louis, McCarter Theatre Center na Princeton, ArtsEmerson na Boston, na Off-Broadway na New York Theatre Workshop. Somi weputara abọm otuto a raara nye Makeba, Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (2022).  Egwuregwu ntọhapụ nke abọm ahụ mere na The Apollo Theater ma bụrụ ihe omume mbụ na-eme na ihe nkiri akụkọ ihe mere eme na-esote ọrịa zuru ụwa ọnụ nke afọ 2020. Dị ka onye edemede na onye na-eme ihe nkiri, Somi na-ejikwa aha nna ya ma na-aga site na Somi Kakoma. 

Somi is a 2023 recipient of Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, TED Senior Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, a Soros Equality Fellow, and a Sundance Theatre Fellow. 

N'afọ 2023, Somi mere ihe nkiri mbụ ya na Broadway na ọrụ 'Jaja' na JAJA"S AFRICAN HAIRBRAIDING . 

## Ndụ onwe onye
Somi bi na New York City ugbu a.

## Nkọwapụta

* Ihe Ebumnuche ebighi ebi (2003) 
* *Ala Na-acha Uhie n'anya m* (2007) 
* *Ọ bụrụ na Mmiri Ozuzo Mbụ* (2009) 
* *Somi: Na-ebi na Jazz Standard* (2011) 
* Ihe ngosi egwu Lagos (2014) 
* *Obere Afrịka* (2017) 
* *Ụlọ Nsọ - Na-ebi na Alter Opera* (2020) 
* *Zenzile: Echiche nke Miriam Makeba* (2022) 

## Ebemsibia

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