Mim Suleiman | |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Website: | http://mimsuleiman.co.uk/ |
Mim Suleiman is a singer, songwriter, composer, performer, workshop facilitator and campaigner from Zanzibar. She now resides in Sheffield, England.[1]
Suleiman moved to the UK from Zanzibar in the 1980s, teaching metallurgy at the University of Birmingham before turning her career to music.[2] As she states, "what was once as a person of no art has become now an artist within fifteen years...it's given me a depth of life I've never had before". Her music encompasses elements from afro-beat, electronic, disco, deep house, and soul. She mainly sings in her native language Swahili, but occasionally uses other languages such as English and Fulani.[3]
She is best known for her track Mingi, which features on Soulwax FM in the Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack.