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Photograph of a wazza. The wazza, also referred to as al-Wazza, is a type of natural horn played in Sudanese music. [1] The wazza is a long wind instrument, constructed by joining several wooden tubes to form an elaborate gourd trumpet, and while blown, it is also tapped for percussive effect.
The Berta (Bertha) or Funj or Benishangul are an ethnic group living along the border of Sudan and Ethiopia. They speak a Nilo-Saharan language that is not related to those of their Nilo-Saharan neighbors (Gumuz, Uduk). The total population of Ethiopian-Bertas in Ethiopia is 208,759 people. Sudanese-Bertas number around 180,000.
He was aligned with the political left and a member of the Sudanese Communist Party (the largest in Africa during the Cold War). [4] After the military coup in 1989, he left Sudan for exile in Cairo and Los Angeles. [1] In 1990, Wardi played a concert for 250,000 Sudanese refugees at a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia. [5]
In 2018, Sudanese journalist Ola Diab published a list of contemporary music videos by upcoming artists, both from Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora in the US, Europe or the Middle East. [74] One of them is the Sudanese–American rapper Ramey Dawoud and another the Sudanese–Italian singer and songwriter Amira Kheir.
Al Balabil (Arabic: البلابل, transl. The Nightingales) were a popular Sudanese vocal group of three sisters, mainly active from 1971 until 1988. Their popular songs and appearance as modern female performers on stage, as well as on Sudanese radio and television, earned them fame all over East Africa and beyond, and they were sometimes referred to as the "Sudanese Supremes". [1]
This album is a collaboration with the well known Sudanese Muslim musician Abd El Gadir Salim and brings together opposing sides of the conflict, and different music traditions, to a common ground of the wish for peace in Sudan. The collaboration represents a vision for the future, as two Sudanese men, a Christian and a Muslim, unify and pave ...
Jantra's music is influenced by Astro-Nubian electronic sounds and is associated with the Fashaga Underground scene in Sudan. [4] [1] Vik Sohonie, founder of the indie label Ostinato Records, came across Jantra's music during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 while he was exploring Sudanese music on YouTube.
In his artistic works, Al-Nour Al-Jilani was influenced by the Sudanese singers Khader Bashir, Othman Al-Shafi’, Sayed Khalifa and Al-Aqib Muhammad Al-Hassan. [8] He started his artistic career in 1968, through a music group in the neighbourhood in which he lived, known as “Group of Su’alik” Arabic: شلة الصعاليك. [8]