At home with Bi Kidude

Bi Kidude is Zanzibars most famous musician. Her age is unknown but must be somewhere around 90, some even say she's over 100 years old. She's the godmother of Taarab, a music style which mixes arab and African sounds. Bi Kidude is still traveling the whole wide world to perform.

Visiting Zanzibar in summer 2006 for the shooting of the film Zenji Flava, about the Zanzibar music scene and hiphop on particular, I paid a visit to Bi Kidude at her house and asked her what she thinks of the new hiphop music. Zanzibar DJ Cool Para, who is neighbor and somehow family member too was my guide. The interview took about an hour and Bi Kidude smoked a full packet of cigarettes. She supposedly still drinks a lot too....

This film is a short fragment from Zenji Flava.

Видео At home with Bi Kidude канала Bram Vergeer