Mostafa Sid Ahmed
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| Mostafa Sid Ahmed | |
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| Birth name | Mostafa 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) was a Sudanese singer. He was born in Wad Solfabb village, which is 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, named Al-makkabool. Al-makkabool's life and death had a great influence on Mostafa because his brother was known in his homeland as a singer and poet and his dramatic death, aged only 27, gave Mostafa a great desire to complete his brother's career. Mostafa started primary education in El-Hasissa close to his homeland. He Then moved to Port Sudan town, the capital of Red Sea state, where he got his secondary education. Mostafa first appeared as a singer in 1971 with the Training Teachers Institute when Mostafa quit working as a teacher in intermediate school (1973-75).
[edit] Career
Mostafa spent four years studying at the Higher Institute for Music and Drama in Khartoum and graduated in the late 1970s. He is considered the pioneer of a new style of Sudanese singing because he used a poetry labelled by many critics as sophisticated and complicated and categorized as political singing.
At the start of Mostafa's career, he collaborated with many traditional singers, writers and poets but after a few years he disagreed with his poets. For example, he had a disagreement with one poet who wrote his song "Shagga Alayaam" (The suffering of the days) and the argument led to a dispute with the whole Sudanese Union for Singing and Music.
After this, Mostafa chose to collaborate with younger poets. These were not in particular song writers, rather their poetry was classified as symbolic. It concerned itself with freedom and the struggle of the Sudanese people against the dictatorship of late years of the Jaafar Muhammad al-Nemieri regime from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. These new poets included Yahia Fadullah, Abu zar Al-gafari, Mohammed Elmahdi Abed Elwahab, Gasim Abu zid, Katab Hassan Ahmed, Salaah haj Seed. Later, in the late 1980s and 1990s, Mostafa collaborated with more poets like Al-ssadiq Al-raddi, Mohammed Elhassan Salim Homid, Alkattiabi, Azahri Mohammed Ali, Atif Khiry, Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra, Medani El-Nakhaly, and Mohammed Ali Shammoo.
Mostafa was also known as a poet and composer. He migrated to Russia in 1989 when he was afflicted by kidney failure and was given surgery there before going to Egypt (Alexandria and Cairo). Finally Mostafa migrated to Qatar where he spent the rest of his life until dying after a long struggle against kidney failure in 1996. During his time in Qatar, Mostafa released many songs. Most of these songs expressed the suffering and struggle of the Sudanese against the regime of Omar al-Bashir. Mostafa's songs reflected his exile and the suffering of expatriates, mixed in with his struggle against his own physical pain. This sentiment was transmitted to students in universities and schools and among many people.
Mostafa was regarded as a national hero and a legend even after his death. He released more than a hundred songs. Mostafa's wife was called Boethienna Nassar and they had two sons, Saamer and Sid Ahmed, who now live 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
