11 Oct Popular Hausa singer Magajiya Dambatta is dead
One of Northern Nigeria’s popular Hausa singers, Magajiya Dambatta, has died at 85 after a brief illness on Friday in Kano.
Late Ɗanbatta rose to stardom in the late 1970s and 1980s with her popular song ‘Soriyal’ being instrumental to the enrollment of Northern children to both western and islamic schools in the 70s and 80s.
She died at her home in Dambatta.
In December 2018, an appeal fund to support the singer was launched by the Editor-in-Chief of DAILY NIGERIAN newspaper and friends to raise money to help the singer who was blind and at the mercy of alms-begging at her hometown Makoda in Kano State.
According to a note written on the LP of her songs by a former managing director of Radio Kano, Adamu Salihu, one of her advocacy songs helped in boosting school enrolment in the early 70s by over 3,000 pupils In Kano.
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