Alsarah

[2] When she was eight, her family fled the country during the 1989 coup by future president Omar al-Bashir to avoid being killed as dissidents.

[3] During this turbulent period, she often found solace in music, listening to bootleg recordings in Yemen and taking casual piano lessons from a family friend.

[2][3][4] After graduating in 2004, she moved to New York City and began singing professionally in Arabic, supporting herself with various odd jobs.

[5] They have toured Hungary, Portugal, France, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Sweden, and Lithuania.

She collaborated with American oudist and rabbinical student Zach Fredman on the album One Bead (2012), the debut from his group The Epichorus.

Alsarah & the Nubatones in 2015.
Alsarah in Poitiers , France in 2014.