Mim Suleiman

Mim Suleiman is a singer, songwriter and performer born in Zanzibar and based in Sheffield. She moved to the UK in the 1980s and taught metallurgy at the University of Birmingham before turning to music in her late twenties. She sings mainly in Swahili, over music that draws on afrobeat, disco, deep house, soul and East African folk. Her 2010 single Mingi on Running Back found a second life on the Soulwax FM station in Grand Theft Auto V. A run of albums on BubbleTease Communications followed, among them Tungi, Umbeya, Adera Dera, Kawaida and Si Bure, and she has also worked with Maurice Fulton, Ben UFO and Mood II Swing. She performed live with Esa at Lentekabinet Festival in 2018, and she runs voice and songwriting workshops.