At only 21, DJ Lil (real names Ngarambe Ludovic) has done almost everything a 30 year music producer would do.  

"As a kid, I loved everything to do with music; be it drums, the choir and even the small tins we used to make sound while walking home.” says the soft spoken music producer who works with Maurix Music studio in Huye District. 

While at Camp Kigali Primary school, DJ Lil was good at drawing pictures and cartoons. He remembers an old friend who once told him that, "Drawing is an art like music,” then he was torn taking up fine Art or music as a career. 

"Remember, the greatest gift is not found in the store nor under a tree, but in the beliefs friends have in you” goes a famous saying. 

His friend didn’t give up because he is the same person who invited him to Church, with the intention of recruiting him in the church choir. And it’s in the same Church that he learnt how to play most of the music instruments he uses in production studio. 

Though he takes this friend of his as someone who inspired his career, nothing has moved his career like producing "Ikigabo K’igisambo’ of the defunct Abakimaze group.  

"Producing ‘Ikigabo K’igisambo’ was a major boost in my career, because I received so much respect from my seniors in the industry. This is the time I begun to believe that I would make it.” 

Despite this reasonable success, DJ Lil’s dream is to have formal education about the field such that he prepares himself to embrace music production as a life time career. 

As a music producer, he has respect for every compatriot, though he singles out Aaron Niyutunga, formerly with Contact FM, and now in Canada as his best music producer.

Internationally he admires the works of Dr. Dre, because he thinks he has done and seen a lot about American Music. 

He advises Rwandan entertainers to work together, because they can achieve everything with the help they share.

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