Amram Musungu

Amram Musungu (born August 28, 1978) is a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and a prominent Kenyan organizer of charitable efforts in Utah. He is currently one of three black men in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He has also been influential in bringing many people from Africa who live in Salt Lake City into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Biography
Musungu was raised in Hamuyndi, Kenya, in the western part of the country. He moved to Nairobi at age 14 and shortly afterward met missionaries from the LDS Church. He was baptized into the LDS Church on June 7, 1992. From about 1997 to 1999 Musungu served as a missionary in the church's Kenya Nairobi Mission, serving much of that time in Tanzania.
After his mission, Musungu came to Utah where he studied at LDS Business College, where he received a business degree and Westminster College where he received a BS in accounting. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Utah.
Musungu founded the Musungu HIV-AIDS Support Organization which seeks to help the widows and orphans brought about by the ravishes of AIDS in Kenya. He has been the coordinator of Swahili language translation for LDS Church general conferences since 1998. He has been a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir since 2003.
Musungu also teaches Swahili at Brigham Young University where he is on the staff of the BYU Language Institute. He serves as an advisor to the philanthropic group All One People. In 2006, Musungu received LDS Business College's alumni achievement award.
On January 4th, 2009 Munsungu was made the president of the Parleys Creek Branch in the Salt Lake Sugar House Stake. This was the first Swahili speaking LDS Church unit created in the United States.

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