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SHARAF

by Sahra Halgan

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"SHARAF" - 1st single of the new Shara Halgan album's
"HIDDO DHAWR "(keep the cultur alive)
Release 29 march 2024 on the new label DANAYA.
Inouïe Distribution

Sahra Halgan is an iconic artist from Somaliland, a country in the Horn of Africa that has been independent since 1991 but is unrecognised by the international community. During the 1980s, when she is involved in the terrible war against the dictatorship, she earns the nickname "Halgan", the fighter, and her songs win the hearts of an entire people forever. Exiled to France, she starts her group in Lyon with Aymeric Krol, Maël Salètes and Régis Monte. Her third album is the fruit of a sincere search for authenticity and innovation, an unprecedented alliance between Somali song and original rock, thus enriching the most unexpected landscapes of the world music scene with her inspiration. It's called ‘Hiddo Dhawr’ (‘Preserve Culture’), which is also the name of the cultural centre that Sahra founded in 2013 in Hargeisa.

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“SHARAF” is a hymn to the pride and dignity of the human being. «Show your beauty and the honor that God has given you» In these days filled with daily bad news and war on the screen, misery has no place for Sahra Halgan who decides through this first single to prioritize the beauty of human dignity.
As she usually says, “We must be able to love each other in order to open ourselves to the world and love the other. Self-esteem is not a fault of pride and on the contrary, knowing its value highlights the beauty of a soul".

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released January 30, 2024
Sahra Halgan - Lead Vocal
Aymeric Krol - Drum and Percussions - Backing Vocal
Maël Saletes - Guitar - Backing vocals
Régis Monte - Keys

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Sahra Halgan Hargeisa, Somalia

Sahra arrived in Europe in 1992, a political refugee from her native Somaliland, a territory in the North East of Somalia (East Africa), formerly a British colony, self-proclaimed independent since May 1991 but as yet unrecognised by the international community. Nowadays she returned to Somaliland, the present album was recorded just before her travel back. European tour march 2015. ... more

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