Taarab from Tanzania and Kenya
https://amf.didiermary.fr/taarab-from-tanzania-and-kenya/
Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. Here, the singer is Bi Kidude, the Zanzibari star, the Queen of Taarab (RIP).
Her exact date of birth is unknown, much of her life story is uncorroborated, giving her an almost mythical status.
In interviews, she usually answers she’s 100 years old or more… […]
Bi Kidude – Alalminadura
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bi-kidude-alalminadura/
“Alalminadura” is the opening song (extract) from the documentary As Old As My Tongue, about Bi Kidude and Taarab music in Zanzibar.
She performs one of her most famous songs on board the dhow Asraa, accompanied by Matona (oud), Abeid Hussein (dumbak) and Mohamed Outhman (violin). […]
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of Taarab, in February 2011, when attending Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar. We spent a delightful moment backstage…
She passed away in 2013.
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bi-kidude-rip/
