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// Bi Kidude
She might be over 90 years old with a stoop that makes her appear even tinier than she is, but Fatuma Binti Baraka, better known as Bi Kidude, remains a monument to traditional East African music. Her hoarse voice and the taarab rhythms she beats out of her massive unyago drum make her an enduring testimony to Tanzanian music.
For decades the songstress from Zanzibar toured her country singing songs in Swahili and Arabic. At present the ‘Little Granny’ of Zanzibar is seen as a veritable musical memory bank. Kidude began her career in the 1920s walking on foot to venues in what is known today as Zanzibar. Since then she has performed as far afield as France, England and Japan. At present the singer lives in a stone house behind the Zanzibar radio station. Kidude is often on stage with the Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar that brings together the best musicians of the islands.
// INTERVIEWS
Festival of the Dhow Countries, July 2003
07/07/2004
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Zanzibara Vol 4 (Album)
Waridi (Culture Musical Club) (Album)
De l'âme à la danse
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