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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]
Al Kabli was born in the city of Port Sudan in 1932. [2] During childhood, he developed an interest in the Arabic language, especially old Arabic poems, and learned to play music on a penny whistle. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Khartoum to attend the Khartoum Commercial Secondary School, where he studied Sudanese folk music and Arabic poetry.
The strongest stylistic influence in the development of modern popular Sudanese music has become known as hageeba music (pronounced hagee-ba and meaning "briefcase"). The name hageeba, however, was only applied much later to popular songs from the 1920s, when radio presenter Ahmed Mohamed Saleh talked about old records, collected in his ...
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.
Elhadi Adam is considered by critics as one of the greatest poets in the Arabic speaking world. Even though he belonged to the old school of poets, he is still considered contemporary. Elhadi Adam was a prolific writer and wrote several collections of poems.
Hanan Bulu Bulu (Arabic: حنان بلوبلو, born as Hanan Abdallah Abdelkarim, 4 May 1966, Omdurman, Sudan), is a modern Sudanese singer-songwriter and recording artist. In her music, she combines both songs by older Sudanese musicians as well as her own compositions.
Aswat Almadina have produced two albums, the first was called Khashab ("Wood") and the second Logat Alshware, which means "language of the streets". [4] In 2016, the German Cultural Centre in Khartoum [ 5 ] [ 6 ] produced two of their songs for an international project featuring music videos from Sudan, Egypt and the Middle East.
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.