The secret Somali mixtapes
Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala
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Music in the Seventies and Eighties
Samonic culture is inherently slamic, and by default, that mens that woman singing were seen as haram or frowned upon. Radio stations did cast music by the most popular artists of the day, but there were virtually no private music labies. In their place, hundreds of small casette shops around the horn of africa would record the music from the radio and sell it back to the public as casette would. They'd even do custom compilations on uest kind, like spatify playlists for the seventies and eighties.
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