Starting a career as professional singer and musician was a challenge for
Setona as a young woman even though one of her uncles was the founder of
a so called "jazz band" in the fifties. But acting as a female musician
in the public has never lost its connotation of indecency in Sudanesean society.
Together with her husband Ahmed, who has been working as a teacher and collecting
music all over the vast country, she draws from a broad spectrum of African
rhythms and melodies. In her music Setona combines with ease influences of all
those peoples living alongside the tarig as-sudan as an unique crossroad of
cultures. One will find musical influences from areas being as too dispersed as
East Africa (Taraab), Zaire (Soukous), Ghana (Highlife), Nigeria (JuJu, Fuji) and
Sierra Leone (Palmwine music) and furthermore Uganda, Ethiopia, Tchad, Senegal,
Nubia, Egypt and and and ... - apparantly pan African music and truely Sudanese
at the same time.
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