Abdel Gadir Salim
Abdel Gadir Salim (* around 1950 in Dilling , Sudan ) is a Sudanese musician.
Life
Biographical information on Abdel Gadir Salim is scarce. He was born in the small town of Dilling in the Nuba Mountains (about 130 kilometers south of El-Obeid ) in the Sudanese province of Kordofan . Although there had never been a musician in his family, he taught himself to play the short-necked Arabic lute oud at a young age . He later studied classical European and Arabic music at the Institute for Music and Theater in Khartoum , where the artist now lives.
Abdel Gadir Salim is also the director of a primary school in Chad .
plant
Abdel Gadir Salim is one of the leading composers and old masters of Sudanese oud music , alongside Abdel Aziz El Mubarak . Together with his band Merdoum All Stars he plays all over the Arab world, since the mid-1980s also in Europe. Merdoum describes a traditional style of music and dance from Kordofan, which Salim made known in other parts of the world with his work.
In his early work Salim is seen as a representative of a musical style known as "Khartoum city song", popular urban music. It is a mixture of traditional folklore with new musical elements, for example with strong influences from jazz . In the early 1970s he focused on the traditional music of Kordofan and Darfur . The urban popular style is characterized by the addition of western musical instruments such as the accordion or saxophone in its all-star line-up. At the same time, Salim is building a musical bridge between Arabic and African music by using scales and motifs from the former and typical percussion styles in his pieces from the latter .
As a North Sudanese and Muslim, Salim recorded the album Ceasefire in 2005 with his all-star band together with the rapper Emmanuel Jal , a South Sudanese and Christian, and with his hip-hop crew The Reborn Warriors . This is considered a musical call for peace in Sudan. Nevertheless, Salim is seen as an apolitical musician who does not want to arouse the displeasure of the Islamic government of Sudan with his occasional polemical texts.
In November 1994 he was injured in a knife attack by a fanatical Islamist elementary school teacher. The popular Sudanese singer Khogali Osman was killed in this attack . The background to this was a campaign against secular music launched by the state media.
Discography
- Sounds of Sudan Vol.1 , Songs from Kordofan, World Circuit 1987
- Nujum al-Lail, Stars of the night, Globe Style 1989
- The Merdoum Kings Play Songs of Love, World Circuit 1991
- Le blues de Khartoum, Harmonia mundi 1999
- Ceasefire (with Emmanuel Jal), Riverboat Records 2005
Web links
- Biographical and discographical information
- Picture by Abdel Gadir Salim ( Memento from September 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- Discography
- Abdel Gadir Salim. worldcircuit
Individual evidence
- ^ Abdel Gadir Salim | Biography & History. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim - Ceasefire - WOMEX. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Angel Romero: Artist Profiles: Abdel Gadir Salim | World Music Central.org. Retrieved May 14, 2020 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salim, Abdel Gadir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudanese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dilling , Sudan |