Ubadkaa Mudnaanta Leh

Somali Singer Aar Maanta Releases ‘Ubadkaa Mudnaanta Leh’ Somali Children Songs

September 1, 2021

For immediate release. For album reviews, interviews, and questions, please contact: info@aarmaanta.com. Today Somali musician Aar Maanta releases Children Have Priority (Ubadkaa Mudnaanta Leh), the first bilingual English & Somali children’s album in world music. Aar Maanta created the pioneering 14-track album together with Somali-American youth in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “The children are the priority,” sings Aar Maanta, […]

Minneapolis Somali Children/Youth Album Launch

February 22, 2019

Ubadkaa Mudnaanta Leh (“Children Have Priority”) is a new bilingual Somali-English children’s album created by London-based Somali artist Aar Maanta and youth from Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Cedar Riverside neighborhood. The album flows between generations and genres, mixing traditional Somali music with hip-hop influenced beats, spoken word and poetry, Islamic greetings, educational children’s songs, and much more. […]