{"id":166,"date":"2025-10-02T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:57:00","slug":"from-basketball-fan-to-music-star-philemons-first-performance-at-bk-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"From Basketball Fan to Music Star: Philemon\u2019s First Performance at BK Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KIGALI \u2013 Singer <strong>Philemon<\/strong> has described his debut on the BK Arena stage as a life-changing moment, made possible by artist and media personality <strong>Uncle Austin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The January 1 concert, headlined by <strong>The Ben<\/strong> during his <em>Plenty Love<\/em> album launch, gave Philemon his first big-stage appearance since 2021. Ironically, the artist\u2019s first visit to BK Arena had been as a spectator at a basketball game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, however, he stood before thousands, performing <em>Amasomo<\/em> \u2014 the song that connected him to Uncle Austin and eventually to The Ben\u2019s fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled and deeply encouraged. Performing at BK Arena placed a brick in my music journey and gave me the courage to plan bigger things,\u201d Philemon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIGALI \u2013 Singer Philemon has described his debut on the BK Arena stage as a life-changing moment, made possible by artist and media personality Uncle Austin. The January 1 concert,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waramutse.icu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}