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Khojali Osman of Al- Halfaya, Khartoum North, was a popular Sudanese musician, who was known throughout the country for his soothing voice and romantic music.He was known for singing songs such as ma bnikhtalif, habba, habba, asma3na marra and hajri w fatishi.
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 ...
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.
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.
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]
Gordon Koang is a blind South Sudanese musician based in Australia. He is known in South Sudan as the country's "King of Music". [1] [2] Koang was already an internationally touring musician and a household name in his own country when he was forced to flee South Sudan for Uganda and then Australia. Since then, he has played and produced music ...
Music from Saharan Cellphones contains an assortment of different songs by various African musicians from Algeria, Niger, Mauritania, Nigeria, Morocco, Mali and the Ivory Coast. [6] Despite their popularity within the region, the tracks which appear on the album achieved little or no commercial release outside the Sahara .
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]