Sudan: Khartoum Celebrates 80th Birthday of Music Composer Beshir Abbas

29 October 2017
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Music composer-melodist Beshir Abbas is a superstar innovator who began his musical career in the late 1950s and still contributes to this field. He has engaged different generations and has contributed to shaping the Sudanese sentiment since then. A great number of Sudanese signers, including Abdul Aziz Mohamed Dawood, Sayyed Khalifa, Abdul Kerim al-Kably, Aisha al-Fallatiyah, Hassan Atiyah and Zaidan Ibrahim, vocalized his melodies, besides introducing in early 1970s the renowned three sister signers known as the Balabil (nightingales).

Abbas has composed more than 50 famous melodies and he has won numerous local and international awards the latest of which was one awarded by the German radio station Deutsche Welle that followed the Arab League award in 2005.

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