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Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Dimi Abba


Years active
  
1976-2011

Genres
  
Griot

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Birth name
  
Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba

Born
  
December 25, 1958 (
1958-12-25
)

Died
  
June 4, 2011, Casablanca, Morocco

Albums
  
Moorish Music From Mauritania, Music & Songs of Mauritania

Similar People
  
Mariem Hassan, Noura Mint Seymali, Malouma, Abdel Gadir Salim, Tata Dindin

Native name
  
Arabic: ديمي منت آبا‎

Also known as
  
"la diva du desert"

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Dimi Mint Abba (Arabic: ديمي منت آبا‎‎‎; 25 December 1958 – 4 June 2011) was one of Mauritania's most famous musicians. She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.

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Life and career

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Dimi's parents were both musicians (her father had been asked to compose the Mauritanian national anthem), and she began playing at an early age. Her professional career began in 1976, when she sang on the radio and then competed, the following year, in the Umm Kulthum Contest in Tunis. Her winning song "Sawt Elfan" ("Art's Plume") has the refrain "Art's Plume is a balsam, a weapon and a guide enlightening the spirit of men", which can be interpreted to mean that artists play a more important role than warriors in society.

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Her first international release was on the World Circuit record label, following a recommendation from Ali Farka Touré. On this album, she was accompanied by her husband Khalifa Ould Eide and her two daughters.

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Later she composed famous and popular Mauritanian songs like "Hailala" and "Koumba bay bay". She died in June, 2011, in Casablanca, Morocco following a stage accident in Aioun ten days earlier when she was singing for Sahrawi public.

She died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Her death was described as "a national loss" by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the President of Mauritania.

Discography

Albums
  • Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba, Moorish Music from Mauritania. World Circuit WCD 019, 1990.
  • Dimi Mint Abba, Music and Songs of Mauritania, Auvidis Ethnic 1992.
  • Contributing artist
  • The Rough Guide to West African Music, World Music Network, 1995
  • Unwired: Africa, World Music Network, 2000
  • References

    Dimi Mint Abba Wikipedia


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