Hausa Movie Songs

Featuring Mai Raga . Tabara Imbalbo . Adam A. Zango . Maryam Umar . Gobe Da Nisa . Bajintar Yabo . Ummi . Babban Gari Namune . Jadawali . Ali Nuhu . Almajira . Tuba . Dama Da Huni . Lelewa . Sakataye . Basaja . Sanafana . Usman Auyo . Babban Gari . Ahmad S Nuhu

Wikipedia : Courtly praise-singers, like the renowned Narambad, are devoted to singing the virtues of a patron, usually a sultan or emir. Praise songs are accompanied by kettledrums and talking drums, along with the kakakai, a kind of long trumpet, derived from an instrument used by the Songhai cavalry.

Kano On Line : Without any doubt Ahmed S. Nuhu was the best actor of his generation. That he had never received best actor award was because of he was constantly in the shadow of his mentor, Ali Nuhu who was the main portal through which Ahmed S. Nuhu entered the Hausa video film industry.

Daily Triumph : A famous Hausa singer, Yakubu Muhd has sung 3000 songs in practically Hausa language and also in english. He has a unique style of singing, he is just a natural singer, this is evident in lots of Hausa films that use his songs as soundtracks and playbacks.

iafrica : The sex video that triggered the scandal involved popular local actress Maryam Hiyana and was filmed in 2006 on a cellphone during a private tryst and never intended for public distribution. But it got out, prompting the state government to slap a six-month ban on any video production in Kano, the biggest city in Nigeria’s north and the one that gave “Kannywood” its name. Though it ended this month, the ban was followed by 32 new restrictions that, operators say, make production all but impossible.

Nigeriafilms.com : He capitalised on the general rejection of singing and dancing the Indian way, in some Hausa films, to justify his claims. But we were the first to agree that we must stop making films with those kinds of songs,” says Sani Muazu, a major producer of Hausa movies.

allAfrica : The major point of contention between the society and the filmmakers is the issue of singing and dancing. While the society abhors the kind of dancing and singing shown by the filmmakers on the grounds that they totally differ from our mores, the filmmakers always point that they are only satisfying their customers’ tastes as they (customers) chase indecorous films, which has singing and dancing like hot cake unlike films that depict our cultures, which are shunned and consequently make them (filmmakers) lose substantial amount.

Making African Movies : The most recent case is the arrest of a former gubernatorial candidate Hamisu Lamido Iyan Tama—a film maker whose film, “Tsintsiya”, is an adaptation of the Hollywood classic, “Westside Story”. He was first arrested in May 2008 for three months and fined 2,500 naira, then in January 2009 he was sentenced to 15 months with a fine of N300,000. It seems in the movie, he acted the role of a governor and carried out an investigation into the causes of sectarian violence.

A Tunanina : In the most recent news from Kano, singer Aminu Ala was arrested Saturday. Ala has long been known as a strong supporter of the current Kano state administration, but has recently been “on the run” since his song “Hasubanallahu” was banned by a mobile court judge linked to the censorship board.