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With an eclectic sound that united both young and old, it’s no surprise that “Al Hoot”<\/em> (the Whale) still stands as a figurehead of Sudanese revolution in both music and social change. Born in Khartoum’s Bahri district in 1967, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was destined for stardom from a young age. After gaining praise from Sudan’s president Gaafar Nimeiry at the age of 8, Abdel Aziz joined the Bahri Youth Center’s (BYC) theater troupe where he began to develop a strong passion for music and performing….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> With an eclectic sound that united both young and old, it’s no surprise that “Al Hoot” (the Whale) still stands as a figurehead of Sudanese revolution in both music and social change. Born in Khartoum’s Bahri district in 1967, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was destined for stardom from a young age. After gaining praise from Sudan’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[13680,258,256,42216,12725,257,254,4708,1613,45122,10858],"class_list":["post-180558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abdel","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aziz","tag-mahmoud","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-timeless","tag-voice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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