Mostafa Sid Ahmed

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Mostafa Sid Ahmed
Background information
Birth name Mosafa Sid Ahmed Almagbool
Born 1953
Origin Wad Solfaab, Sudan
Died 17 January 1996
Genre(s) Music of Sudan, African Music
Occupation(s) High-school Teacher, Singer-songwriter,textile designer
Instrument(s) Singing, Oud, multiple instruments
Years active mid of 1970s -1996

Mostafa Sid Ahmed Almagbool (1953-17 January 1996; Arabic: مصطفى سيد احمد‎) is a Sudanese singer. He was born in Wad Solfabb village,which located in Al Jazirah state in central Sudan close to El-Hsaissa town.

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[edit] Early life

Mostafa had seven sisters and one brother. His brother life and death had a great influence in Mostafa ,because his brother named Al-makkabool was known in his homeland as a singer and poet and his dramaticlly death in just 27 year let Mostafa to agreat desire to complete his brother career. Mostafa joined primary education in El-Hasissa close to his homeland .Then Mostafa moved to Port Sudan town a capital of Red Sea State ,where he got his Secondary education . his first appeared as a singer in 1971 joining the Training Teachers Institute. When Mostafa graduted working as a teacher in intermediate school(1973-75).

[edit] Career

Mostafa spent four years studied in Higher Institute for Music and Drama in Khartoum and graduted in late of the 1970s. He is considered as a pioneer of a new style of Sudanese singing because Mostafa used a poetry labeled by many critics as sophisticated and complicated and categorizing as polticial singing . When Mostafa started his career he collaborated with many traditional singers writers and poets singer but after afew years Mostafa disagreed with the his poets like one of them who wrote his song "Shagga Alayaam" (The suffering of the days) and dispute accelerated to led to a dispute with the whole Sudanese Union for the Singing and music. Mostafa then redirected his way collaborated with younger poets actully they were not classify as singer writers and their poetry classified as symoblic and talk about the freedom and struggling of Sudanese people against the dictatorship and that in late of 1970s and early of 1980s(The late years of of Jaafar Muhammad al-Nemieri regime) his new poets like Yahia Fadullah, Abu zar Al-gafari, Mohammed Elmahdi Abed Elwahab, Gasim Abu zid, Katab Hassan Ahmed, Salaah haj Seed,and later in late of 1980s and 1990s he collaborated with more poets likAl-ssadiq Al-raddi ,Mohammed Elhassan Salim Homid,Alkattiabi,Azahri Mohammed Ali,Atif Khiry,Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra,Medani El-Nakhaly,Mohammed Ali Shammoo.

Mostafa Sid Ahmed in Higher Institute for Music and Drama late of 1970s and early of 1980s

Mostafa was also known as a poet and composer. Mostafa migrated to Russia in 1989 when he afflicted by kidney failure and he made surgery there before going to Egypt (Alexandria and Cairo). Finally Mostafa migrated to Qatar where spent the rest of his life until passed away in mid of January 1996 after a long struggling of kidney failure. Along the time when Mostafa Sid ahmed struggling against the disease he released many songs. Most of these songs expressed the suffering and struggle of Sudanese against the present regime of Omar al-Bashir. Mostfa songs reflected his exile and expatriates suffering which mix his struggling against his own pain ,which was transmitted among students in universities and schools and amongs many people. Mostafa was regarded as a national hero and a legend even after his death. Mostafa released more than hundred songs.Mostafa wife's Boethienna Nassar and had two sons Saamer and Sid Ahmed ,Mostafa family live now in Canada

[edit] List of his Songs and poems

  • Maa Eltiour, with the Birds --Yahia Fadullah
  • Yaa Matter Az Elhrig ,Rain on the time of Fire -Mohammed Elhassan Salim Homid
  • Almassafa ,the Distance-
  • Tayyba -Mohammed Elhassan Salim Homid
  • Albit Alhadigga ,The girl is the Garden - Kattab Hassan Ahmed
  • Alhozzn Elnabil- Abazzar Elgafari
  • Faai Aionk ,In your Eyes-
  • Norra- Mohmmed Elhassan Salim Homid
  • aliia Bababk ,In your Door -Alkattiabi
  • Yaa Sier Maktoum ,The Hidden Secret-
  • Shahig,or inhalation - Atif Khiry
  • Ganna Aloazlla ddad Alozzala, The singing of Solitude -Al-ssadiq Al-raddi
  • Asalla liset llagabba ,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 Zakrra
  • Safir, Gonna away, Jamal Hassan Seed
  • Aldnnia Lilil Gorbba wa Matter,The life is loneleyness and Rain
  • Adni Ahsas Bi Alamal,Give me feeling of Hope--
  • Hagga Fiek, Something in you--Azahri Mohammed Ali
  • Wagif Braak,Stand A lone --
  • Samah wa Samriaa, Beautiful and Ibony--
  • Azzank Arrafti, Ithink You Know--
  • Yaa Garrih, My Painfull--
  • Torritkk--
  • lamahtak,Glance you--Alkattiabi
  • Arrafni Manak
  • Gaddar Dammok
  • Goolli Elklimma,Say the word--
  • Kan Naffsi Agoolk, I had desire to talk to you--
  • Wagef Braak Stand a lone, Medani El-Nakhly
  • Ben'a Mariam wel' Megdleia , Between Madonna and Magdalen--Mohammed Shamow

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