SISTER FA

Sister Fa takes her first steps in rap-music in 2000, recording her first demo-tape and getting to know the Senegalese rap-community. One year later at the age of nineteen she is invited for the first time to perform at the Senegalese Hip Hop Awards where the best Hip-Hop singers are decorated. At the beginning of 2002 the French producer Philipp Mogan makes a film-documentary on Sister Fa, in which she is introducing to the Senegalese Rap-Scene. She is invited to participate in a music-compilation called “Art City” with French an Senegalese Rap-musicians that is produced with the help of ENDA Tiers Monde a French organisation for development and environment. In the same year she represents the Senegal at the festival de rap feminine international in Guinea Conakry. In 2003 she joins the label FN..F (Fight n.. Forget) where she participates on several compilations.

On august 8th, 2005 her long awaited first solo-album was finally released in Senegal which she had produced herself with great love and enthusiasm. The same year in December at the fifth Senegalese Hip-Hop-Awards her dedicated hard work paid off and Sister Fa won the prize for the best newcomer of the year.

Move to Berlin
In march 2006, Sister Fa moves to Berlin, Germany, to live with her husband, an Austrian ethnologist and documentary filmmaker. In Berlin she has already participated in a compilation of the bpb (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) on the subject “Pop and Islam” which was released under the title “Many Lessons” with the label Piranha. In the beginning of 2007 she founded her own band and has since played concerts at the Moods-Club in Zurich, at the Africa-Festival Osnabrück, in Berlin at the Kulturbrauerei, the renowned Jazzclub A-Trane, the Carnival of Cultures and many other places.

Projects
With full strength Sister Fa fights against the female genital mutilation. For three weeks and with the wish to sensitise the population of her homeland, she travelled in January 2008 through Senegal on a self-organised tour with the title "Education sans mutilation" together with her band and the manager Mahide Lein. The project was realised with the support of the Goethe-Institute in Dakar.