About Mostafa Sid Ahmed
Mostafa Sid Ahmed (Arabic: مصطفى سيد احمد, 1953 – 17 January 1996), also spelled Mustafa Sayyid Ahmad, was a Sudanese singer-songwriter and composer, active from the late 1970s onwards until his death in 1996. During his lifetime, he released more than a hundred songs. According to an article published during the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19, he was remembered "for performing a selective and expressive type of lyrics that touches upon the causes of ordinary and deprived people."
A former teacher, he studied at the College of Music and Drama in Khartoum and composed his music to the lyrics of well-known Sudanese poets like Mahjub Sharif, often expressing the longing for freedom and the struggle of the Sudanese people against dictatorship.
