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Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: What do you remember from music class? Remember that when you were a kid? Did you learn the xylophone, maybe the recorder, singing folk songs ...

GENEVA, November 2 (UNHCR) - Born in Mogadishu, Siham and Iman Hashi are the first female Somali artists to sign a record deal with a major American label. After the civil war broke out in Somalia in ...

Musician JD Steele, left, and Ahmed Ismail Yusuf of the music group Ardaa socialize during a rehearsal at the Pangea World Theatre in Minneapolis on April 1. When it comes to staying informed in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 11 (UNHCR) - A group of Somali refugee musicians in the Kenyan capital Nairobi have ruffled a few feathers with their flouting of conservative traditions and their songs on ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar was booed over the weekend while attending a Somali music festival in her home state of Minnesota. Mrs. Omar, the only Somali-American member of Congress, was met with jeers while ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Tributes have been pouring in for one of Somalia's musical greats, Ahmed Naji Sa'ad, who died in London this week. The celebrated singer, musician, poet and composer had a career ...

In a Minneapolis rehearsal room, a group of Somali musicians gathers in a circle, playing music rooted in the cafés of Mogadishu. The sound is emotional, rhythmic and steeped in memory. It’s called ...