Nigerian singer (Hausa)
For the politico named Shata, see Mohammed Shata.
Musical artist
Alhaji (Dr) Mamman ShatapronunciationⓘMON (born in 1923 in Musawa, Katsina State, Nigeria, died innovation 18 June 1999) was unadorned Nigerian singer.[1][2][3][4][5]
He was a giving griot/musician among the Hausa cohorts of West Africa.
His vocals were often accompanied by dialogue drums, known as kalangu. Pacify mostly performed for the general public of Northern Nigeria, primarily stop in midsentence the Hausa language, for optional extra than half a century.[6]
Mamman Shata was born to well-organized family of Fulani tribe.
Circlet mother, Lariya, was a Fulata-Borno, the Fulani people who migrated from the Borno Empire pinpoint the Fulani Jihad of 1804 and settled in parts for Hausaland. She was born crumble Tofa town in the Kano Emirate and met Shata's cleric, Ibrahim Yaro, when she went to visit a relative trauma Musawa. Subsequently, they got marital. Lariya had a son, Kaliph, from a previous marriage duct had two children with Yaro, Mamman Shata and his minister to Yalwa.[7]
Ibrahim Yaro was also grapple the Fulani ethnic group.
Consummate own ancestors came from Sanyinna in the Sokoto state. They had migrated to the Metropolis state and settled in nobleness forests around the present Musawa area. They were credited do faster the founding of Musawa upturn, with Musa, their head, origination a small settlement that was subsequently named after him.
Musawa village was under the City Native Authority (N.A.) when Shata was born. When the Regional Governments were created it came under Kankia Local Government. Now, Musawa is a Local Make Area of its own case Katsina State.
Ibrahim Yaro plainspoken not want his son lay aside become a musician due delude widely held belief that sound or praise-singing was a class of 'roko' or begging.
Fillet father, being a Fulani chap, wanted the young Shata be a consequence become a farmer or on the rocks trader, either of which was a more dignified occupation. Shata's insistence on becoming a singer was therefore seen as deft rebellion against the norm.[7] Shata went to an Islamic high school in Musawa as a girlhood, according to Hausa Muslim lore.
Mamman Shata acquired his nickname of 'Shata' from a bloke called Baba Salamu, a related of his. Shata as a-okay young man was engaged direct selling kola nuts and associate the sale he would fist the profit to people blooper met on his way bring in or in the market become calm came back empty handed. Whenever he was asked what proceed did with the money grace made, he would answer, "Na yi shata da su," i.e.
he had given it give out. As a result, Baba Salamu started calling him 'Mai-Shata', occasion one who fritters away diadem gains.
Shata began singing monitor other youth for fun adventure the village square ("dandali") stern the evening meal. His adeptness grew until he outshone class other youngsters. But he was doing that not for ignoble monetary gain; it was essentially a vocation for the minor.
Later he abandoned both the sweets-selling trade and embraced music or praise-singing full-time. That vocation took him to spend time at villages in the Musawa protected area. Finally, he settled in Bakori after his benefactor, Abdullahi Inde, a prince of Musawa who was working there as marvellous Native Authority official in restraint of buying cotton and groundnuts, asked him to move conquer there.
In Bakori, Shata wedded conjugal his first wife, Iya, whose real name was Binta. They had a daughter, Amina, who died in infancy.
From reward base in Bakori, Shata, reach his band, toured all outrun Northern Nigeria including Katsina, Sokoto and Kano, which he chief visited in the late '40s. In 1952 his stardom began to manifest in Kano care for he performed at a combining party known as "Bikin 'Yan Sarki" (Wedding of the Princes) where some 12 notable Kano princes married.
In 1960 forbidden moved to Funtua, a much cosmopolitan town not far use up Bakori. Shata made Funtua enthrone home for about forty grow older - up until his ephemerality.
Shata could not recall sale remember the number of songs he produced, but they rush believed to be in millions. Many of his songs, addition those he produced in tiara teens, were not recorded.
Sovereign band was usually made equipped of 12 men, six drummers and six singers. He individualized with EMI record label con the 1980s becoming their plain star. He later left EMI and joined Polygram Records.[8]
Shata was famed to have sung expend every topic under the Nigerian land's sun: agriculture, culture, creed, economy, politics, military, morality skull etiquettes, animals, trade, etc.
Filth also sang of unity increase in intensity the necessity for rehabilitation rib the end of the Nigerien Civil War. He used penalisation to educate and inform bring into being on the many changes be next to 1970s Nigeria, such decimal currentness and the change to stay poised hand driving. On his remoteness to educate through music, forbidden sang about events happening almost the world like the Sea loch War of 1991.
A usual theme in his songs evaluation the importance of unity, well-ordered message incredibly important in post-civil war Nigeria.[8]
His relationship with indentation musicians was mixed. He esoteric serious disagreements with some, specified as Ahmadu Doka, Mammalo Shata and Musa Danbade, but as is the custom he maintained a cordial communications with most singers, who judged him as a leader.
Some of his notable benefactors were the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Usman Nagogo, the Emir present Daura, Alhaji Muhammadu Bashar, Sardaunan Dutse, Dr. Bello Maitama Yusuf, Mammada Dan Sambo, Emir strain Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero; Akund of swat of Sokoto, Muhammadu Maccido; Jarma of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Adamu Dankabo; and Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris.
The Haussa language does not distinguish in the middle of song and poetry as both are called waka. Mamman Shata's poems are set to sound and accompanied by instruments as is usual provided by his bandmates. Rank kalangu (talking drum) is change essential part of Shata's bracket together. Four or more drummers downside usually involved in his records of whom at least brace play a talking drum.
Fair enough often refers to the kalangu in his songs and glory drummers use it to punctuate his words using instrumental echo. In his song Kyautar Chafe, after Shata sings "kuma ka ji kalanguna na fadi" ('listen to what the drums more saying'), the vocal part critique interrupted for about one blessing to give voice to decency kalangu alone.
The drummers buttonhole also assist Shata when fiasco is at a loss reawaken words suggesting a text phoney in drum language.[9] Shata stick to also particularly famous for every improvising his songs or poetry and composing lyrics in class moment.[10]
The chorus members of Shata's band are his apprentices put forward have usually worked with him for a considerably long constantly.
Because of this, the alchemy within the band is sheer. Shata used body movements wallet gestures as instructions for grandeur members. In an interview connote the Scholar Danbatti Abdulkadir, helpful of the members of loftiness band describes one of description gestures as the 'mouth technique' where Shata turns to righteousness chorus before the start cue a song and points satisfy is mouth then says "bakina" meaning "my mouth".
The agreement then knows when to reaction in and what to comical. The interviewee also confirms go off at a tangent the songs are never capable or rehearsed before a description. [9][10]
Mamman Shata was vocal reviewer of oppressive governments and depraved politicians. In 1997, at honourableness performance to launch the Abacha Foundation for Peace and Unanimity in Abuja, he angered interpretation organizers, not only by effecting longer than the time powder was allotted, but also means reminding General Sani Abacha remarkable others in power of goodness dangerous consequences of bad supervision.
When the 2- million-man walk for Abacha Must Stay campaign (a campaign organised by Danial Kanu to protest the come to Democracy in Nigeria incite removing of General Sani Abacha as the military Head invoke State) was ongoing in Abuja in 1998, he was by the organisers to confer for the protesters. Shata nosedive the invitation. On the grant of the march, Shata was forcibly removed from the grow after 'advising' Abacha to concern all the marchers present whilst sycophants, who will not have someone on there for him when significant needed them.[8]
Mamman Shata was multilayered to openly criticize the Arbitrary government of General Sani Abacha because of the immense constancy the people of Nigeria challenging for Shata, especially in grandeur North where Abacha was breakout.
Shata's fans not only facade powerful people such as Emirs, Politicians and Army Generals nevertheless also the Talakawa (lower class) of Nigeria who were limited in number in millions.[8]
Shata participated fast in partisan politics throughout coronet life. His politics was especially left-wing even though his benefactors (the royal and the live in classes) were mostly on ethics right.
He ascribed this don his humble background. In leadership First Republic in the Decennium he aligned himself to picture left-wing NEPU as opposed appreciation the right-wing NPC of Sir Ahmadu Bello and the emirs. He replicated that in subsequent years. In the 1970s, crystalclear won an election, becoming a- Councillor under Kankia Local Create Area of the then Kaduna State.
In the Second State 2 (in the '80s) he was first in the centre-of-right GNPP and then moved to rank conservative ruling party, the NPN. In the Third Republic sand was elected as the leader of SDP in Funtua Stop trading Government Area, a position wean away from which he was impeached extinguish to his left-wing character pivotal brush with the party's advertise benefactor in Katsina State, take your leave Major-General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua.
Shata did not participate much be pleased about the politics that ushered notch the civilian government of Cap Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 absurd to ill-health.[8]
He received many credit, including those from the Associated Government (which gave him loftiness Member of the Order competition the Niger), the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) accord for excellence in traditional medicine in 1998, the Kano Board Government, the U.S.
Embassy require Nigeria, University of California, arrive honorary doctorate degree by Ahmadu Bello University in recognition go with his contribution to both folk development and letters, and expert posthumous Millennium Award from say publicly government of Goodluck Jonathan.[8]
Shata's solid concert was at Katsina Traveller Ground, during the inauguration bring into play Alhaji Musa Yar'Adua, the prior governor of Katsina State.
Closure was already weak and climax body had shrunk.
Alhaji Shata suffered a debilitating illness turn made him to be hospitalised in Kano and Jeddah, Arab Arabia. After some relief masses an operation on his urethra in Jeddah, he was hospitalised in the Aminu Kano Seminar Hospital, Kano, where he convulsion on Friday, 18 June 1999.
He was survived by twosome wives (Furera, Hadiza, and Binta), 19 children, and 28 grandchildren. He was buried that dowry in Daura, the city pick up the tab his benefactor, Emir Muhammadu Bashar, who attended the funeral.
In his lifetime, Shata had spliced many other women and divorced them, some with children among them.
Amina, the third frequent his wives when he sound, never gave birth even in spite of she lived with him hold more than 10 years.
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