Singer and songwriter, Soul-T has been in the music game for a while now, mostly pursuing his music career in Belgium where he is based.

Born in Burundi, he moved to Rwanda before relocating to Belgium where he has been living for more than 20 years now.

In Brussels, the young-man pursued his degree public relations at college, but did not abandon his passion for music, a passion he said he had from his childhood.

"I was a simple fun guy, but most of all, a proper lover of music and arts, movies, photography, design and all kinds of artistic stuff.

When I was young, I really enjoyed writing. I loved writing (just writing some sentences), writing poetry and others with much love for it and that is how it started,” he shared in an exclusive interview with The New Times adding that he started considering himself as a professional singer when he was 16 driven by his love and confidence for music

Shortly after his studies, he joined a US-based gospel choir which motivated him to start his own solo career under the name Soul-T and went on to record songs such as ‘Material Things’ and ‘Fall in Love’.

"I loved that choir because we used to sing, and really sing! But most importantly, we didn’t just sing to raise voices, we had a message to deliver and there was a purpose for that.”

"From there, that is when I got inspired to write my own songs, and assess my composition skills.

I remember even the first song that I wrote, my friends did not want to believe that it was mine, because it was tremendously good, and that motivated me to even write the second one,” the singer recalls.

That is how he started performing in different places in Europe where his music was appreciated.

The Afro-jazz singer then created a band that went on to perform in several European countries like Spain and France among others.

This gave him an opportunity to meet renowned music stars like Franco-Rwandan singers including Stromae and Gael Faye among others.

He ended up becoming a music producer and is now mainly engaged in music performance and music production.

Bouncing back with a re-brand

The Belgium-based artist has been doing music for the last 17 years as Soul-T, but has for some years been concentrating on producing other artistes’ music.

He recently announced that he is re-branding to Suka Ntima and is planning to launch his Afro-fusion album in May 2021 that includes singles like Sukali and his collabo with the Rwandan artiste Angel Mutoni which is in the pipeline.

Inspired by Bob Marley, his future ambitions are to make songs that will always be needed.