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Aswat Almadina, (Arabic: أصوات المدينة), meaning "Voices of the City", is a modern Sudanese music band, founded in 2016 in the capital Khartoum. Their original songs are influenced both by Sudanese urban music of the 21st century as well as by international pop music styles.
Abdel Karim al Kabli (Arabic: عبد الكريم الكابلي), sometimes spelled el Kably or al Kably (13 April 1932 – 2 December 2021), was a popular Sudanese singer-songwriter, poet, composer and humanitarian, known for his songs with themes of love, passion, nationalism, Sudanese culture and folklore.
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]
The music of Sudan also has a strong tradition of lyrical expression that uses oblique metaphors, speaks about love, the history of a tribe or the beauty of the country. In his essay Sudanese Singing 1908–1958, author El Sirr A. Gadour translated an example for the lyrics of a love song from the beginning of the 20th century as follows: [9]
Noor al-Jailani (Arabic: النور الجيلاني; born 1944) is a Sudanese singer with a unique lyrical style that combines traditional folk singing with modern music, through topics of various shapes and contents. He sang many songs to South Sudan and loved nature and scenic views. Most of his songs were about the Nile and birds.
According to an article in Middle East Eye online magazine, Ibrahim al Kashif's song Write to Me Darling is set to the lyrics of the poem Letters, written by Sudanese poet Abed Abdel Rahman. After a long instrumental introduction of string instruments , percussion , oud and Western instruments like the flute , al Kashif sings about the narrator ...
Kamal Ibrahim Suleiman, better known as Kamal Tarbas, (Arabic: كمال ترباس, born 1 January 1950, Omdurman, Sudan) is a Sudanese singer-songwriter.He has contributed to the development of popular music in Sudan in the 1970s by his personal, down-to-earth way of singing, backed by orchestras with western musical instruments.
The word "music" in Arabic, the language of Islam, (mūsīqā موسيقى) is defined more narrowly than in English or some other languages, and "its concept" was at least originally "reserved for secular art music; separate names and concepts belonged to folk songs and to religious chants". [1]