Mostafa Sid Ahmed
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Mustafa Sid Ahmad Almagbul (1953 - 17 January 1996; ) was a Sudanese singer. He was born in Wad Sulfabb village, which is located in Al Jazirah state
in central Sudan
close to the town of Al-Hasa Hisa.
, the capital of Red Sea state
, where he got his secondary education. Mustafa first appeared as a singer in 1971 with the Training Teachers Institute when he quit working as a teacher in intermediate school (1973–75).
and graduated in the late 1970s. He is considered the pioneer of a new style of Sudanese singing because he used a style of poetry labelled by many critics as sophisticated and complicated, and one categorized as "political singing".
At the start of Mustafa's career, he collaborated with many traditional singers, writers and poets, but disagreements arose with some of the poets he had been collaborating with. For example, he had a disagreement with one of the poets who wrote the song "Shagga Alayaam" (English: "The suffering of the days"), and the argument led to a dispute with the entire Sudanese Union for Singing and Music.
After this, Mustafa chose to collaborate with younger poets. These were not song writers in particular, and their poetry was classified as symbolic. The style of poetry concerned itself with freedom and the struggle of the Sudanese people against the dictatorship of the latter years of the Jaafar Muhammad al-Numayri regime from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. These new poets included Yahia Fadullah, Abu zar Al-gafari, Muhammad Elmahdi Abed Elwahab, Qasim Abu zid, Katab Hassan Ahmad, Salaah haj Seed. Later, in the late 1980s and 1990s, Mustafa collaborated with more poets, including Al-Sadiq Al-raddi, Muhammad Elhassan Salim Homid, Alkattiabi, Azahri Muhammad Ali, Atif Khiry, Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra
, Madani El-Nakhaly, and Muhammad Ali Shammu.
Mustafa was also known as a poet and composer. He immigrated to Russia in 1989 when he was afflicted by kidney failure, and was underwent surgery there before travelling to Alexandria
and Cairo
in Egypt
. Mustafa subsequently immigrated to Qatar
where he spent the rest of his life and died after a long struggle with kidney failure on the 16th January 1996. During his time in Qatar, Mustafa released many songs, most of which expressed the suffering and struggle of the Sudanese against the regime of Omar al-Bashir
. Mustafa's songs reflected his exile and the suffering of expatriates, which were mixed in with the struggle against his own physical pain. This sentiment was transmitted to students in universities and schools and many other people.
Mustafa was regarded as a national hero and a legend even after his death. He released more than a hundred songs. Mustafa wife was Buthayna Nassar and they had two sons, Saamir and Sid Ahmad, who now live in Canada.
Al Jazirah (state)
Al Jazirah , also spelled Gezira, is one of the 15 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. It has an area of 27,549 km². The name comes from the Arabic word for peninsula. Wad Madani is the capital of the state.It is...
in central Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
close to the town of Al-Hasa Hisa.
Early life
Mustafa had seven sisters and one brother named Al-Makkabool. Al-Makkabool's life and death had a great influence on Mustafa because his brother was known in his homeland as a singer and poet and his dramatic death, when he was only 27, gave Mustafa a great desire to complete his brother's career for him. Mustafa started primary education in Al-Hasa Hisa, close to his homeland. He then moved to Port SudanPort Sudan
Port Sudan is the capital of Red Sea State, Sudan; it has 489,725 residents . Located on the Red Sea, it is the Republic of Sudan's main port city.-History:...
, the capital of Red Sea state
Red Sea (state)
Red Sea is one of the 15 wilayat or states of Sudan . It has an area of 212,800 km² and an estimated population of 1,396,000 . Port Sudan is the capital of the state. Sudan claims, but does not control the Hala'ib Triangle, a region disputed between Sudan and Egypt...
, where he got his secondary education. Mustafa first appeared as a singer in 1971 with the Training Teachers Institute when he quit working as a teacher in intermediate school (1973–75).
Career
Mustafa spent four years studying at the Higher Institute for Music and Drama in KhartoumKhartoum
Khartoum is the capital and largest city of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia. The location where the two Niles meet is known as "al-Mogran"...
and graduated in the late 1970s. He is considered the pioneer of a new style of Sudanese singing because he used a style of poetry labelled by many critics as sophisticated and complicated, and one categorized as "political singing".
At the start of Mustafa's career, he collaborated with many traditional singers, writers and poets, but disagreements arose with some of the poets he had been collaborating with. For example, he had a disagreement with one of the poets who wrote the song "Shagga Alayaam" (English: "The suffering of the days"), and the argument led to a dispute with the entire Sudanese Union for Singing and Music.
After this, Mustafa chose to collaborate with younger poets. These were not song writers in particular, and their poetry was classified as symbolic. The style of poetry concerned itself with freedom and the struggle of the Sudanese people against the dictatorship of the latter years of the Jaafar Muhammad al-Numayri regime from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. These new poets included Yahia Fadullah, Abu zar Al-gafari, Muhammad Elmahdi Abed Elwahab, Qasim Abu zid, Katab Hassan Ahmad, Salaah haj Seed. Later, in the late 1980s and 1990s, Mustafa collaborated with more poets, including Al-Sadiq Al-raddi, Muhammad Elhassan Salim Homid, Alkattiabi, Azahri Muhammad Ali, Atif Khiry, Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra
Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra
Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra or AbuZikreea was a Sudanese writer, poet, and translator.- Early life :Abed Elrahim was born in the small village of Tangassi El-soeq in Northern, Sudan, close to Meroë town . He got his primary education in his homeland, but went to Kosti in White Nile State for his...
, Madani El-Nakhaly, and Muhammad Ali Shammu.
Mustafa was also known as a poet and composer. He immigrated to Russia in 1989 when he was afflicted by kidney failure, and was underwent surgery there before travelling to Alexandria
Alexandria
Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...
and Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. Mustafa subsequently immigrated to Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
where he spent the rest of his life and died after a long struggle with kidney failure on the 16th January 1996. During his time in Qatar, Mustafa released many songs, most of which expressed the suffering and struggle of the Sudanese against the regime of Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir
Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir is the current President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister...
. Mustafa's songs reflected his exile and the suffering of expatriates, which were mixed in with the struggle against his own physical pain. This sentiment was transmitted to students in universities and schools and many other people.
Mustafa was regarded as a national hero and a legend even after his death. He released more than a hundred songs. Mustafa wife was Buthayna Nassar and they had two sons, Saamir and Sid Ahmad, who now live in Canada.
List of his Songs and poems
- Maa Altiur, with the Birds --Yahia Fadullah
- Yaa Mattar Az Al Hariq ,Rain on the time of Fire -Muhammad Elhassan Salim Homid
- Al Massafa ,the Distance-
- Tayyba -Muhammad Al hassan Salim Hamid
- Al Bit Al hadiqqa ,The girl is the Garden - Kattab Hassan Ahmad
- Al Huzzn Al Nabil- Abazzar Elgafari
- Fi Ayunik ,In your Eyes-
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- Muhammad Al hassan Salim Hamid - aliia Bababak ,In your Door -Alkattiabi
- Yaa Siar Maktum ,The Hidden Secret-
- Shahiq,or inhalation - Atif Khiry
- Qanna Aluazlla ddad Aluzzala, The singing of Solitude -Al-ssadiq Al-raddiAl-ssadiq Al-raddiAl-ssadiq Al-raddi is a Sudanese writer and poet who was born in Omdurman, Sudan.-Career:Al-ssadiq has been publishing poetry since he was 15 when his poem The Wind was published in the literary journal Al-Shawa. Al-ssadiq was awarded the prize of Youth Poets in 1986 and in the same year he got a...
- Asalla lisat llaqabba ,Questions not for answer-Yahia Fadullah
- Yaa Dallanna,Our Shadow --Yahia Fadullah
- Dallit, I lost--Yahia Fadullah
- Ayahha Alrahal, Who Gonna Away ,--Abed Elrahim Abu ZakrraAbed Elrahim Abu ZakrraAbed Elrahim Abu Zakrra or AbuZikreea was a Sudanese writer, poet, and translator.- Early life :Abed Elrahim was born in the small village of Tangassi El-soeq in Northern, Sudan, close to Meroë town . He got his primary education in his homeland, but went to Kosti in White Nile State for his...
- Safir, Gonna away, Jamal Hassan Seed
- Al Dunya Lilil Qurbba wa Mattar,The life is loneleyness and Rain
- Adni Ahsas Bi Alamal,Give me feeling of Hope--
- Haqqa Fik, Something in you--Azahri Muhammad Ali
- Waqf Braak,Stand A lone--
- Samha wa Samriaa, Beautiful and Ebony--
- Azzank Arrafti, I think You Know--
- Yaa Qarrih, My Painfull--
- Turritk--
- Lamahtak,Glance you--Alkattiabi
- Arrafni Manak
- Qaddar Dammok
- Qulli Al Kalimma,Say the word--
- Kan Naffsi Aqulk, I had desire to talk to you--
- Waqf Braak Stand a lone, Medani El-Nakhly
- Bayn'a Mariam wa Al' Magadlaya , Between MadonnaMary (mother of Jesus)Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...
and Magdalen--Muhammad Shamaw
External links
- http://www.sudaneseonline.com/SudaneseMusic/article_1014.shtml
- http://www.syrialine.com/arabic-songs/arabic-songs/moustafaahmad.htm
- http://web.archive.org/web/20071127085940/http://www.geocities.com/muwafagg/index1.htm