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were imposed in Sudan that stifled cultural life for the next 30 years, the sisters and their families moved to the United States and stopped performing for many years. In 2007 they appeared again, on stage in New York City, the following year in
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vocal group of three sisters, mainly active from 1971 until 1988. Their popular songs and appearance as modern female performers on stage, as well as on
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songs that were part of a tradition of orally transmitted songs performed by women singers at weddings. Their creativity and innovation was in the compositional arrangements of their music, which not only borrowed from the traditional orally transmitted
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Al
Balabel were a phenomenon in their time because their music felt and sounded innovative, marking a departure from the patriotic and nationalistic songs of
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Al-Balabil, who made this recording of the song, belong to the
Halfawi tribe and were forced to migrate as children from Halfa to New Halfa in East Sudan."
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Albayan magazine from UAE. The citation translates like this:
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in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The family of the three singers originally came from the Nubian city of
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and praise songs, but also integrated lyrics about the lives of urban women to create a unique new sound.
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