Setona - Komssou

Song Name: Komssou

By: Setona ( ستونة )

Country: Sudan

Song Local Name: Not available

Album: African Crossroads: Tariq Sudan

Link to buy: Not available

Genre: music of Sudan

Date Added: 26 Mar 2020

Discovered By: ghostdog

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Komssou by Setona is part of folk music tradition in/by Sudan. Folk Music of Sudan is traditionally brother to some other region(s) in the world. If you want to listen to song(s) in the same genre or with the same root with Komssou (or folk music of Sudan), other than checking Sudan you can also check music of South Sudan and Egypt. From the top menu, first choose the desired region and then find the link from the map or country list.

Setona (ستونة) was born in Khartoum into a family coming from the Sudanese province of Kordofan. But acting as a female musician in the public has never lost its connotation of indecency in Sudanesean society. Setona lived with her family in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in a quarter inhabitating people from different Central African countries as Nigeria, Zaire, Ethiopia and people from the southern parts of Sudan. In her music Setona combines with ease influences of all those peoples living alongside the tarig as-sudan as an unique crossroad of cultures. One will find musical influences from areas being as too dispersed as East Africa (Taraab), Zaire (Soukous), Ghana (Highlife), Nigeria (JuJu, Fuji) and Sierra Leone (Palmwine music) and furthermore Uganda, Ethiopia, Tchad, Senegal, Nubia and Egypt.

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