Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya. It is influenced by the musical traditions of the African Great Lakes, North Africa, the Middle...

known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer. She has been called the "queen of Taarab and Unyago music" and was inspired by Siti binti...

genres in Tanzania, as defined by BASATA are, ngoma, dansi, kwaya, and taarab, with bongo flava being added in 2001. Singeli has since the mid-2000s been...

binti Saad (c.1880– August 1950) was a pioneering Tanzanian musician in the taarab musical style. Through her music she was also an anti-colonial activist...

Africa and France, and now has a strong Malagasy influence. Zanzibar's taarab music, however, remains the most influential genre on the islands, and a...

Africans for his work in promoting Africa worldwide Bi Kidude, Taarab singer of Taarab and Unyago music, received WOMEX award in 2005 Faruk Malik, Ugandan...

Singeli is a ngoma music and dance where an MC performs over fast tempo taarab music, often at between 200 and 300 beats per minute (BPM), while women...

derivative of American hip hop and traditional Tanzanian styles such as taarab and dansi, with additional influences from reggae, R&B, and afrobeats, to...

genres in Tanzania, as defined by BASATA are, ngoma, dansi, kwaya, and taarab, with bongo flava being added in 2001. Singeli has since the mid-2000s been...

among the Luo, Nzele among the Mijikenda, Mugithi among the Kikuyu, and Taarab among the Swahili. Additionally, Kenya has a growing Christian gospel music...

polka and mazurka, French folk and pop, sega from Mauritius and Réunion, taarab, zouk, soukous moutya and other pan-African genres, as well as Polynesian...

and has over the years provided a stage for local Swahili talent, from Taarab legends like Bi Kidude and Culture Musical Club, to homegrown Tanzanian...

electro Soukous (aka Congo, Lingala or African rumba) Street pop Sungura Taarab Tsapiky Wassoulou music Zimbabwean jazz Zouglou Zouk African traditional...

including Zanzibar and Comoros. It is featured in the region's genre of taarab or twarab music. The Zanzibari version is described as "a slightly tapered...

musical Swahili Zanzibari family. She is the daughter of the Zanzibari Taarab musician Khadija Kopa. Zuchu's Father, Othman Soud used to be a songwriter...

Raï Rumba Sakara Sega Seggae Semba Shangaan electro Soukous Kwassa kwassa Taarab Zamrock Zouglou Nunatak (band) Central Asian Shashmaqam Pashto music Kazakh...

emphasis is being placed on teaching traditional music styles, such as Taarab, Kidumbaki or Ngoma. "In recent years the Music Academy of the Tanzanian...

East African Coast that fuses traditional Portuguese, Arabic influenced taarab music and local coastal bantu languages Bongo drum, an Afro-Cuban percussion...

Taarab, another type of music style adapted by the coast and mainly performed by women. A very popular coastal tradition, with Arabic poetry, taarab has...

early 90s. To the people in the Arab world, she's called as the "Sultana of Taarab" due to her strong and sensational voice and her popular covers of classic...

The 11th edition of the Tanzania Music Awards took place at the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Dar es Salaam, on Friday 14 May 2010. The event was anchored by...

polka and mazurka; French folk and pop; sega from Mauritius and Réunion; taarab, soukous and other pan-African genres; and Polynesian, Indian and Arcadian...

afrofusion, mbalax, Congolese rumba, soukous, ndombolo, makossa, kizomba, taarab and others. African music also uses a large variety of instruments from...

afrofusion, mbalax, Congolese rumba, soukous, ndombolo, makossa, kizomba, taarab and others. African music also uses a large variety of instruments from...

were permitted to be recorded or broadcast, which at the time was ngoma, taarab, kwaya and dansi. The Broadcasting Services Act of 1993 allows private broadcast...

performing arts Benga Boomba Genge Kenyan hip hop Lingala Ohangla Soukous Taarab Performing arts Kenya National Theatre Kenya Institute of Puppet Theatre...

folk music based on the variety over 50 regional languages. Zanzibaran taarab music has also become popular, as has hip hop, reggae music, soul, soukous...

performing arts Benga Boomba Genge Kenyan hip hop Lingala Ohangla Soukous Taarab Performing arts Kenya National Theatre Kenya Institute of Puppet Theatre...

Kidumbaki or kidumbak is a Zanzibari musical genre. It is closely related to taarab (with Arab- and Indian-influenced music and singing in Swahili) but it is...

Matona (a composer, singer, and violinist in the taarab genre). Issa Matona played in the orchestra JKT Taarab, based in Dar es Salaam. Mohamed was born in...