Alhaji (Dr) Mamman Shata MON (nji yanyi 1923 or Musawa, Katsina State, Nigeria, ji tau or 18 June 1999) ndgya Nigerian singer. Njo ndiya ingya sinbiya ni ingya griot/musician or pama njir Hausa ni West Africa. A yardarm ja ingya tsa kalangu, kran jo sinbiya ingya kalangu. Ba gurtan ni jo ih an jir Northern Nigeria, or yaren Hausa, ande rabincentury.[1][2][3][4]
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edit- ↑ Broughton, Simon (1999).http://archive.org/details/roughguidetoworl00simo. Internet Archive. London : Rough Guides. p. 590.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85828-635-8
- ↑ The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians 8, p312 Sir George Grove, Stanley Sadie, 1980.
- ↑ African urban notes Michigan State University. African Studies Center, California. University, Los Angeles. African Studies Center, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Department of Political Science, 1970, 5-6 p23, "Similarly, I have been informed (by J. Michael Armer) that during the period of riots in Northern Nigeria in 1966, the great popular singer Alhaji Muhamman Shata composed and sang songs urging the people to keep calm."
- ↑ Glossary of Hausa music and its social contexts, David W. Ames, Anthony V. King, 1971 p25