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Ja, maar toen op Sudan TV was er elke week een uitzending met Soedanese muziek door Soedanese bands. Stond verbaasd -omdat Soedan toen zeer islamitisch was-, hoeveel (westerse) instrumenten ze allemaal gebruikten: accordeon, trompet, saxofoon, viool, synthesizers, en ga zo maar door.
Toen ook voor het eerst Mohammed Wardi
(1) gehoord. Nu overleden. Een grote meneer. Natuurlijk moet men een beetje van die muziek houden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRlDo0RGA8s
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(1) February 19, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Tens of thousands of Sudanese citizens, including President Omer Al-Bashir attended the burial ceremony of iconic singer Mohamed Wardi who passed away on Saturday night after a long struggle with kidney complications.
Thousands of Sudanese mourners attended the burial of the country’s lead singer Mohamed Wardi on Sunday, 19 February 2012 (Al-Shorog TV)
Sudan’s most famous singer died at the age of 83 in a Khartoum hospital, Sudan’s official news agency SUNA announced in a somber statement on Saturday.
He was buried on Sunday at Al-Farouq cemetery in Khartoum where tens of thousands of peoples, including President Al-Bashir, gathered to pay their respects.
Wardi left Sudan into self-imposed exile after Al-Bashir seized power in a military coup in 1989. He returned in 2002 to a popular reception and vowed to oppose dictatorship.
Iconic singer Mohamed Wardi died at 83 on 11 February 2012 (AFP)
“I am a human being, and every human being is against dictatorship and I will continue to denounce it,” he said in an interview with AFP in June 2002.
Wardi left a legacy of patriotic songs about freedom and revolutions. He sang in Arabic as well as in his Nubian dialect.
Begrafenis Mohammed Wardi.