Album :
Moorish Music from Mauritania
موسيقى موريش من موريتانيا
Artists :
Khalifa Ould Eide With Dimi Mint Abba
خليفة ولد عيدي مع ديمي منت ابا
Melodies :
1. Waidalal Waidalal
2. Yar Allahoo
3. Hassaniya Song For Dancing
4. Hassaniya Love Poem
5. The Tortoise's Song
6. Independence
7. Art's Plume
8. Oh Lord Bring Apartheid Crashing Down!
9. Mauritania My Beloved Country
10. My Young People Do The Youth Of Nations Invite
11. Autoot
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Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba, better known as Dimi Mint Abba, is now the best known singer in Mauritania and a prime representative of the griot or iggawin tradition. In the still strictly hierarchical society of Mauritania, the griots have always had an exceptional role: They were a mixture of court-singer, biographer, historian and court fool. Loved for their singing, feared for their sharp tongues and of doubtful rank, they were thought to have clairvoyant or even magical powers. Something of this iggawin tradition has survived in Mauritania, as shown by Dimi Mint Abba.
She was born into an iggawin family in 1958. Her mother is a percussionist and ardin player and her father composed the Mauritanian national hymn and presides over the Mauritanian society of authors and composers. At an early age, Dimi was taught by her mother to play the ardin, which is like the cora, the west African calebash harp, and is mostly played by female griots. It occurs in this form only in Mauritania and is traditionally played together with the four stringed tidinit. The tidinit has been widely replaced in Mauritanian folklore by the more easily tuned and played guitar thanks to Dimi Mint Abba"s father. Dimi Mint Abba is mostly accompanied on the tidinit and guitar by her husband Khalifa Ould Eide.
In 1976 she played for the first time on Mauritanian radio. Her breakthrough came a year later in the Om Kolthoum singing competititon in Tunis, which she won with Sawt Elfan, a song which describes the social role of an artist as being more important than that of a fighter. Since then she has been one of the most important singers of the Maghreb and has undertaken many tours through Africa as also through Europe. In 1990 she issued her first CD "Moorish Music from Mauritania", featuring also her husband and her two daughters, and in 1992 "Musique et Chants de Mauritanie". Since then she has generally limited herself to performing in concerts in north Africa and Europe.
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ديمي منت ابا سيدة الغناء الحساني من مواليد 25 ديسمبر 1958 - بتجكجا - وهي قرية تاريخية تقطنها احد اكبر القبائل الحسانية في قلب الصحراء الموريتانية. كانت امها " مونينا منت عيدا " عازفت آردين مشهورة وقد اورثت ابنتها فن مداعبة هذه الآلة. وورثت الغناء عن ابيها " سيداتي ولد ابا " نقيب الفنانين الموريتانيين وملحن النشيد الوطني الموريتاني ... الحس الموسيقي وحس الآداء في الغناء اضافة الى خصائص الطبوع والمقامات في الموسيقى الموريتانية ما يعرف عنها...في عام 1976 تحصلت على جائزة الإذاعة في الأداء المتميز وقد شدة الأنظار اليها بقوة صوت خارقة واداء متمرس زيادة الى مهاراتها في العزف على الآردين... في عام 1976 تحصلت على جائزة الإذاعة في الأداء المتميز وقد شدة الأنظار اليها بقوة صوت خارقة واداء متمرس زيادة الى مهاراتها في العزف على الآردين. صعدة نجوميتها الى القمة وصارت تمثل بلادها في معظم الإحتفالات الوطنية والدولية...وكانت تشد الإنتباه انا ذهبت وبهده المناسبة نأسف لما تعرضت له إتر زيارتها واحياءها لحفل في الداخلة وهو امر نابع عن استهتار في تقبل الراي الاخر رغم قوته وما يسببه من الم... في بداية التسعينيات وجهت فنها شطر اوربا وامريكا ... ففي هذه الفترة سجلت البومها الأول وقد شاركها زوجها " خليفة ولد عيدي " الذي كان بارعا في العزف على التيدينيت والجيتار . وبعد وفاته اتمت دربها بدونه
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