Singeli or sometimes called Sengeli is a Tanzanian music genre that originated with the Zaramo in the Mtogole neighborhood of the Tandale ward in Kinondoni District of Dar es Salaam Region around the mid-2000s.
The genre has since the late 2010s spread throughout Tanzania, and since 2020 the surrounding Great Lakes.
Male and female MCs are near equally common, however styles between MC gender typically differ significantly.
[1][2] In the early 2000s vigodoro, meaning all night parties, began being organized by Zaramo women for their other female family and friends particularly Manzese and Tandale wards.
The parties involved playing cassette tapes of taarab music that other women would come and dance to.