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The Beginnings

Sister Fa takes her first steps in rap-music in 2000, recording her first demo-tape and getting to know the Senegalese rap-community. One year later at the age of nineteen she is invited for the first time to perform at the Senegalese Hip Hop Awards where the best Hip-Hop singers are decorated. 2002 she is invited to participate in a music-compilation called “Art City” with French an Senegalese Rap-musicians. In the same year she represents the Senegal at the festival de rap feminine international in Guinea Conakry. In 2003 she joins the label FN'F (Fight and Forget) where she participates on several compilations.

First Album and an Award

On august 8th, 2005 her long awaited first solo-album was finally released in Senegal which she had produced herself with great love and enthusiasm. The same year in December at the fifth Senegalese Hip-Hop-Awards her dedicated hard work paid off and Sister Fa won the prize for the Best Newcomer of the Year.Sister Fa uses her growing popularity and her music to progress her engagement and to create consciousness in social and political themes - focussing on women’s situation in Senegal.

Move to Berlin

In march 2006, Sister Fa moves to Berlin, Germany, to live with her husband, an Austrian ethnologist and documentary filmmaker. In Berlin, she continues her social and political engagement. She participated at a compilation of the bpb (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) on the subject “Pop and Islam” which was released under the title Many Lessons with the label Piranha. Since her arrival Sister Fa also played concerts, e.g. at the Ethno-Film-Festival in Dahlem, Berlin, 2006, at Yaam in Berlin and at Backstage in Munich.

It was in Berlin as well where she met the members of her future band. Since two years now, Sister Fa is constantly developing her repertoire and her style with these professional Jazz musicians. Traditional Senegalese rhythms are joined by rap beats, soul, jazz and reggae elements. In the meantime, she discovered her amazing singing voice which alouds her to switch with ease between rap, African melodies and pure soul.

New Album

As a height of her musical career, Sister Fa released her international debut album Sarabah - Tales from the Flipside of Paradise together with the label Piranha and the help of Initiative Musik in May 2009 (e.g. Germany, France, GB, USA)

With big success Sister Fa & Band are playing concerts in renowned clubs and festivals such as : Moods-Club (Zurich, CH), Kulturbrauerei and the Carneval of Cultures (Berlin, DE), Jazz club A-Trane, Afrika-Festival (Osnabrück, DE), Odyssee - Kulturen der Welt-Festival (DE), Cross Culture Festival in Warsaw (biggest World music festival in Poland), Popdeurope Festival (Berlin), at Damon Albarn’s Africa Express in Paris, FR.

Projects

With all her heart, Sister Fa stands up for the fight against female genital cutting. The wish to sensibilise the population of her home country was the origin of her Education sans Mutilation tour. In 2008, she toured with her band through Senegal for three weeks.

In October 2009 she went to performance in New York. Together with artists such as Harry Belafonte, John McLaughlin and Angélique Kidjo, she was invited as an artist and as a peace ambassador to the UN Day Concert themed A tribute to peacekeeping.

Currently Sister Fa is planning a second sensibilisation tour through Senegal for January/February 2010. The financiation will be realised with the help of several NGO’s and benefit concerts organised by Sister Fa. After this, Sister Fa & Band will do a German tour in spring 2010..

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