Somi

Somi is a Billboard-charting American jazz and pop singer and songwriter; her original music is directly influenced by her Ugandan and Rwandan heritage. She resides in New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. Somi was born in Champaign, Illinois as her dad was finishing his postdoctoral studies. When he joined the World Health Organization and moved the family to Zambia, Somi was just three. Upon her father's appointment to the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana, they returned to the United States and Champaign; Somi was not yet ten. Her formal education included two hig...