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Mim Suleiman | |
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| Nationality | Tanzanian |
| Website | http://mimsuleiman.co.uk/ |
Mim Suleiman is a singer, songwriter, composer, performer, workshop facilitator and campaigner from Zanzibar. She now resides in Sheffield, England. [1]
Suleiman moved to the UK from Zanzibar in the 1980s, teaching metallurgy at the University of Birmingham before turning her career to music. [2] As she states, "what was once as a person of no art has become now an artist within fifteen years...it's given me a depth of life I've never had before". [3] Her music encompasses elements from afro-beat, electronic, disco, deep house, and soul. She mainly sings in her native language Swahili, but occasionally uses other languages such as English and Fulani. [4]
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