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Mustafa Sid Ahmad مصطفى سيد احمد | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mustafa Sid Ahmad Almagbul |
| Born | 1953 |
| Origin | Wad Sulfab, Sudan |
| Died | (aged 43) |
| Genres | Music of Sudan, African Music |
| Occupation(s) | High-school teacher, singer-songwriter, textile designer |
| Instrument(s) | singer, Oud, multiple instruments |
| Years active | mid 1970's–1996 |
Mostafa Sid Ahmed (Arabic: مصطفى سيد احمد, 1953 – 17 January 1996), also spelled Mustafa Sayyid Ahmad, was a Sudanese singer-songwriter and composer, active from the late 1970s onwards until his death in 1996. During his lifetime, he released more than a hundred songs. According to an article published during the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19, he was remembered "for performing a selective and expressive type of lyrics that touches upon the causes of ordinary and deprived people."[1]
A former teacher, he studied at the College of Music and Drama in Khartoum and composed his music to the lyrics of well-known Sudanese poets like Mahjub Sharif, often expressing the longing for freedom and the struggle of the Sudanese people against dictatorship.[2]
- ^ "Sudanese Lyric Writers And Singers Inspire Change And Justice". sudanow-magazine.net. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Leftist Leanings and the Enlivening of Revolutionary Memory : Interview with Elena Vezzadini". Noria. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2021.