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Taarab music is a fusion of Swahili poetry sung in rhythmic poetic style, performed by male or female singers and taarab ensembles comprising numerous musicians. Taarab forms a part of the social life of the Swahili people along the coastal areas, especially in Zanzibar, Tanga and even further in Mombasa and Malindi along the Kenya coast. [4]
Ngoma (Bantu, meaning dance, drum and event) [4] [5] is a traditional dance music that has been the most widespread music in Tanzania. [6] [7] Dansi is urban jazz or band music. [6] [8] Taarab is sung Kiswahili poetry accompanied by a band, typically string, in which audience is often, but not always, encouraged to dance and clap. [6]
Artist, taarab (male) Mzee Yusuph: Mwinyi Mkuu Artist, taarab (female) Khadija Yussuf: Sikudhani Ally Nasra Shaban Abdallah Fatma Mahmoud Malkia Leyla Rashid Song, taarab: Mzee Yusuph (Usinifokee) Mwinyi Mkuu (Keep Talking) DSM Taarab (Tunapwaga na Uhuru) Mwanahamisi Pogoba (Roho Mbaya Ugonjwa) Artist, hip-hop (male) Young Lunya: Professor Jay ...
The genre has since the late 2010s spread throughout Tanzania, and since 2020 the surrounding Great Lakes. Singeli is a ngoma music and dance where an MC performs over fast tempo taarab music, often at between 200 and 300 beats per minute (BPM), while women dance. Male and female MCs are near equally common, however styles between MC gender ...
Bongo Flava is a large divergent evolution of muziki wa kizazi kipya, meaning "music of the new generations", which originated in the middleclass youth of Kinondoni District, in Dar es Salaam between the mid-1980s and 1990s. [10]
The 11th edition of the Tanzania Music Awards took place at the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Dar es Salaam, on Friday 14 May 2010. [1] The event was anchored by Jokate Mwegelo. [2] Bongo Flava singer Diamond Platnumz was the big winner of the night with three awards out of four nominations, which is a remarkable result for a newcomer.
2012 edition of the Festival. Sauti za Busara (in Swahili: "Sounds of Wisdom") [1] is an African music festival, held every year in February in Zanzibar, Tanzania.It is centred in the Old Fort (Ngome Kongwe), with fringe events taking place at the same time around Stone Town - including a carnival street parade ().
Fatuma binti Baraka (Arabic: فاطمة بنت بركة ; c. 1910 – 17 April 2013), [1] [2] popularly known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer. She has been called the "queen of Taarab and Unyago music" and was inspired by Siti binti Saad. [3]