I Shot Bi Kidude – Trailer
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I Shot Bi Kidude is a documentary on the Queen of Taarab music, her story, her music and Zanzibar.
“I shot Bi Kidude” – review on IMDb
A life-affirming documentary about an internationally famous Zanzibari singer and her last years. The film revisits the singer Bi Kidude, previously the subject of a documentary about her […]
Culture Musical Club & Bi Kidude – Jua Toka
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Culture Musical Club, Zanzibar’s premier Taarab club, won the Songs For Peace competition at Sauti za Busara 2015.
2 videos with Bi Kidude, live at Afrikafestival Hertme 2009: “On its tours the club regularly features invited guest singers. The summer 2009 included the legendary Bi Kidude, the veteran diva of Zanzibar, who was in her […]
Taarab from Tanzania and Kenya
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Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. Here, the singer is Bi Kidude, the Zanzibari star, the Queen of Taarab (RIP).
Her exact date of birth is unknown, much of her life story is uncorroborated, giving her an almost mythical status.In interviews, she usually answers she’s 100 years old or more… […]
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of Taarab, in February 2011, when attending Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar. We spent a delightful moment backstage…
She passed away in 2013.
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Bi Kidude – Alalminadura
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“Alalminadura” is the opening song (extract) from the documentary As Old As My Tongue, about Bi Kidude and Taarab music in Zanzibar.
She performs one of her most famous songs on board the dhow Asraa, accompanied by Matona (oud), Abeid Hussein (dumbak) and Mohamed Outhman (violin).
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