Aisha Musa Ahmad (Arabic: عائشة موسى أحمد, romanized: ʾAyša Mūsā Aḥmad, b.

Her mother, Hujra, belonged to the Hausa people, while her father, Musa Ahmad Yahiyya, was a faqīh (religious scholar) of Fulani origin.

[2] Aisha al-Falatiya began to sing professionally at the age of fourteen, and soon achieved a degree of fame as a wedding singer.

[4] Aisha's continued popularity eventually legitimised the presence of women on public radio, and in her later years she even performed duets with male singers.

In the novel The Drowning by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada, a female character quotes a song by Aisha al-Falatiya:[6] Oh my beloved I am crazy for you From the day I fell in love with your beauty The armies of your love have worn me out The more you dally with me The more wiles I use against you Oh green one, the colour of lemon You have taken away from me my sight And blinded my eyes.