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Maryam Mursal (born January 1, 1950) is a famous musician from Somalia. She is a composer and vocalist. Image File history File links Maryamm. ...
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January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...
Mursal grew up in a Muslim family with four daughters. As a teenager, she broke tradition and began singing professionally in Mogadishu. She performed in nightclubs and her brand of music, featuring a mix of blues, soul African and Arabic influences, and known as "Somali jazz", became popular across the country. She performed solo and with Waaberi a 300-member music and dance troupe associated with the Somali National Theatre. After criticizing the government, she was banned from singing for two years, and made her living driving a taxi. Mogadishus location in Somalia Mogadishu (Somali: Muqdisho, popularly Xamar; Arabic: ‎ ; Italian: ), is the largest city in Somalia, and its nominal capital. ...
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ...
During the civil war in her homeland, she and her five children undertook an arduous seven-month journey across four countries on foot and by hitchhiking to finally reach safety in Djibouti, where she found asylum in the Danish embassy. It was this odyssey that provided the germ of her solo recording The Journey, with guitars, sequencers and back-up vocals from Peter Gabriel. Peter Brian Gabriel (born February 13, 1950, in Chobham, Surrey, England) is an English musician. ...
Mursal is an exile, now residing in Denmark. She has toured Europe with Waaberi and appeared with Nina Simone. Her work has been produced by Peter Gabriel's Real World record label. Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. ...
The term Real World or real world may mean: the stage of life that one enters after completing ones schooling, as in the sentence, After students enter the real world, they may not be able to sleep late as often as they did while in school. ...
Quotes
- “Traditional music is very important to me but I was also listening to people like Ray Charles, The Beatles, everything.”
- We as artists are responsible if something wrong is taking place in our society. It's very important for us to speak up, even though we may have to do it with a double tongue. We have to speak out for our people.
- I was always the first woman. I was the first woman singing Somali jazz, I was the first star, and I was the first to drive a taxi! I was the first to drive a lorry, and now I'm the first woman from Somalia to have an international record.
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ...
The Beatles were a highly influential English rock n roll band from Liverpool. ...
Discography
External links - The Journey: Maryam Mursal
- Interview with Maryam Mursal on FindArticles.com
- Video interview with Maryam Mursal on Freemuse.org
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