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Mamman Shata
Nigerian singer (Hausa)
For the politician named Shata, see Mohammed Shata.
Musical artist
Alhaji (Dr) Mamman ShatapronunciationⓘMON (born in 1923 in Musawa, Katsina State, Nigeria, died on 18 June 1999) was a Nigerian singer.[1][2][3][4][5]
He was a well-known griot/musician among the Hausa people of West Africa.
Mammon shata biography of albert
His vocals were often accompanied by talking drums, known as kalangu. He mostly performed for the people of Northern Nigeria, primarily in the Hausa language, for more than half a century.[6]
Early life
Mamman Shata was born to a family of Fulani tribe.
His mother, Lariya, was a Fulata-Borno, the Fulani people who migrated from the Borno Empire after the Fulani Jihad of 1804 and settled in parts of Hausaland. She was born in Tofa town in the Kano Emirate and met Shata's father, Ibrahim Yaro, when she went to visit a relative in Musawa.
Subsequently, they got married. Lariya had a son,