Somi (born Laura Kabasomi Kakoma on June 6, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor of Rwandan and Ugandan descent.
Somi was born in Champaign, Illinois, while her father was completing post-doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. When Somi was three years old, her family then moved to Ndola, Zambia, while her father worked for the World Health Organization. In the late 1980s when her father became a professor at the University of Illinois,... more