| LC control no. | no2005095227 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML420.K43 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Kidude, Bi |
| Variant(s) | Fatuma binti Baraka Bi Kidude |
| Associated country | Zanzibar |
| Birth date | 1920~ |
| Death date | 2013-04-17 |
| Field of activity | Taarab (Music) |
| Affiliation | GlobeStyle Records |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Healers |
| Found in | Zanzibar, p1998: label (Bi Kidude) insert (b. Fatuma binti Baraka in the early years of the 20th century; singer of Zanzibar origin) Guardian (online), viewed Apr. 18, 2013 (Bi Kidude (Fatuma binti Baraka); b. around 1910; d. Apr. 17, 2013; enigmatic performer of taarab music and one of the first Zanzibari women to sing in public) African American National Biography, accessed January 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fatuma, Binti Baraka; Bi Kidude; popular singer, percussionist, spiritual healer; born c.1920 in Zanzibar, Tanzania; interest in taarab song; GlobeStyle Records recorded her songs; one of Zanzibar's most sought-after practitioners of the unyago female initiation rites; recognized in Zanzibar principally for her role as a singer and practitioner of msondo and her work as a healer; included in a number of Zanzibar taaraball-star projects that went on to perform in Europe and Japan in subsequent years (1989-1991); the annual World Music Expo (Womex) awarded her the Womex World Music Award (2005); a documentary film about her life, As Old as My Tongue was produced in 2008; died 17 April 2013 in Zanzibar, Tanzania) |
| Associated language | swa |
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