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Dimi Mint Abba

Dimi Mint Abba

Dimi Mint Abba has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 21 November 2019. Songs played include Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!, Chaviou Elwara: El Barm (Theme) and El Belloutou.

Dimi Mint Abba (Arabic: ديمي منت آبا‎‎; 25 December 1958 – 4 June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians.

She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.

Dimi's parents were both musicians (her father had been asked to compose the Mauritanian national anthem), and she began playing at an early age. Her professional career began in 1976, when she sang on the radio and then competed, the following year, in the Umm Kulthum Contest in Tunis. Her winning song "Sawt Elfan" ("Art's Plume") has the refrain "Art's Plume is a balsam, a weapon and a guide enlightening the spirit of men", which can be interpreted to mean that artists play a more important role than warriors in society.

Her first international release was on the World Circuit record label, following a recommendation from Ali Farka Touré. On this album, she was accompanied by her husband Khalifa Ould Eide and her two daughters.

Later she composed famous and popular Mauritanian songs like "Hailala" and "Koumba bay bay". She died in June, 2011, in Casablanca, Morocco following a stage accident in Aioun ten days earlier when she was singing for Sahrawi public.

She died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Her death was described as "a national loss" by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the President of Mauritania.

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Dimi Mint Abba

Dimi Mint Abba has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 21 November 2019. Songs played include Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!, Chaviou Elwara: El Barm (Theme) and El Belloutou.

Dimi Mint Abba (Arabic: ديمي منت آبا‎‎; 25 December 1958 – 4 June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians.

She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.

Dimi's parents were both musicians (her father had been asked to compose the Mauritanian national anthem), and she began playing at an early age. Her professional career began in 1976, when she sang on the radio and then competed, the following year, in the Umm Kulthum Contest in Tunis. Her winning song "Sawt Elfan" ("Art's Plume") has the refrain "Art's Plume is a balsam, a weapon and a guide enlightening the spirit of men", which can be interpreted to mean that artists play a more important role than warriors in society.

Her first international release was on the World Circuit record label, following a recommendation from Ali Farka Touré. On this album, she was accompanied by her husband Khalifa Ould Eide and her two daughters.

Later she composed famous and popular Mauritanian songs like "Hailala" and "Koumba bay bay". She died in June, 2011, in Casablanca, Morocco following a stage accident in Aioun ten days earlier when she was singing for Sahrawi public.

She died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Her death was described as "a national loss" by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the President of Mauritania.

Original source Last.fm

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Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!
Khalifa Ould Eide, Dimi Mint Abba
World Circuit1990
Chaviou Elwara: El Barm (Theme)
Dimi Mint Abba
Auvidis, Auvidis Ethnic1992
El Belloutou
Dimi Mint Abba
BMG France1995
My Young People Do The Youth Of Nations Invite (Ashabab Yidie Shabab Aldual)
Khalifa Ould Eide, Dimi Mint Abba
World Circuit1990
Mauritania My Beloved Country (Nikhtar An Kulelawtan Awtani Mauritan)
Khalifa Ould Eide, Dimi Mint Abba
World Circuit1990