2021年12月11日 · Today we take you to Zanzibar to meet Bi Kidude, the grandmother of taarab music, a legendary genre that mixes Africa, Persia and Arabia. Bi Kidude was born, with the name of Fatuma binti Baraka, in 1910 in Mfamgimarigo, Tanzania.

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]

2024年2月6日 · Ten years after her death, the legendary matron of Tanzanian Taarab, Bi Kidude, continues to inspire younger generations. Free-spirited and strong-minded, she was a key figure at the Sauti za Busara festival, and one of the role models of singer Mim Suleiman, who looks back on her career.

2016年12月23日 · Bi Kidude was an institution in Zanzibar, and East Africa’s greatest musical legend. The diva of Zanzibar taarab, she also played other musical styles including more ngoma-based unyago and msondo. Her real name has been described as Fatma Baraka Khamis or Bi Fatuma Binti Baraka.

2009年7月13日 · There is the legendary Bakari Abeid, whose song Mazoea yana tabu is a big hit, more than 40 years after it was composed. There is, also, Mohamed Maulid, affectionately known as Machaprala by his...

2006年12月1日 · At over ninety years old, Kidude is still the undisputed queen of taarab and unyago traditional music. You might wonder what keeps this legendary barefoot diva so strong and active, but as she says of herself "Everytime I sing …

2021年12月27日 · Bi Kidude used to be a Zanzibar tradition and East Africa’s most famous musical legend. She was the famous singer of the taarab of Zanzibar, but she also sang other musical forms like msondo and unyago, which are quite ngoma-based.

2023年6月15日 · A story is told of how Bi Kidude, ran away from a Koranic school at the age of ten, defied the norm when she sang without a veil when all taarab musicians sang beneath a veil shifting the patterns. She answered to know one but lived her life to …

2022年4月11日 · There is the legendary – Bakari Abeid whose love song Mazoea yana tabu has become an all time taarab hit number now more than 40 years since it was composed yet when the song is played or re-done by other artists it is still sounds fresh. There is Mohamed Maulid affectionately known as Machaprala by his fans.

2013年4月17日 · Fatuma binti Baraka also known as Bi Kidude (c.1910? – 17 April 2013) was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer and a centenarian. Fatuma binti Baraka was born in the village of Mfagimaringo, Zanzibar, Tanzania in the 1910s. She was the daughter of a coconut seller in colonial Zanzibar.[1][2...