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Toronto:- Somali singer, composer, poet, and songwriter, Saado Ali Warsame, to receive Lifetime Achievement Award for her 35-year musical career and Somali social activism!
Lifetime Achievement
Award ceremony will be in Toronto, Canada on Saturday, June 04, 2011 to create
awareness for World Refugee Day on June 20th, 2011.
Thirty-five years ago,
Saado Ali Warsame joined Waberi, Somalia’s foremost music group, that existed
before the collapse of the central government of Somalia and today she is still
one of the best and most admired of her ensemble. On Saturday, June 4th, 2011,
The Somali Refugee Awareness Project will present a Lifetime Achievement Award
in music and Somali social activism to Saado Ali Warsame.
The ceremony will be a
fundraising dinner in Toronto to help The Somali Refugee Awareness Project to
advocate and educate the mainstream media about the current Somali refugee
crisis in Africa. Saado Ali will be traveling with the Somali Refugee Awareness
Project to Kenya this summer for a video documentary project. June 20th is
World Refugee Day and Somali Refugee Awareness Project is asking all Somalis to
join together in humanity for Somalis in refugee camps around the world.
As someone whose heart
belongs to the well being of all Somali people, Saado Ali displays courage and
bravery to speak up for Somali social issues. Saado became a household icon in
1975 when she appeared on the stage dressed modestly and astonishingly
beautiful with a romantic song called Cunnaabi (amber), a song that up to now,
is evocatively listened to by millions of Somalis.
Saado’s popularity is
not only due to her magnificent voice, but her pro-unity stand for a united
Somalia. Unlike many of her counterparts, and without hidden agenda, she
objectively opposed the practices of Somalia’s last totalitarian regime in
1980’s and for this she had been jailed twice by the then NSS, a notorious
secret service organ that existed in Somalia.
In 2010, she prevented a
possible tribal cleansing in Northern Somalia. Although she is thousand of
miles away from her home country of Somalia, the power of the Internet has
helped her to reach millions of Somalis on YouTube and social network sites. “I
am grateful to use my voice to help the less fortunate and thank you all for
this award!” Saado says. She is passionate artist who is driven to make a
difference. “There is a crisis in the world right now for Somali Refugees, we
need to help displaced Somalis find a safe haven or help fix our country,” she
says.
Somali Refugee Awareness
Project: An advocacy group designed to bring mainstream media attention and action
on the current Somali refugee crisis in Africa. According to UNHCR, Somalia
remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and
internally displaced people (IDPs) in the world.
An estimated 1.4 million
Somalis are displaced within the country while another 680,000 live as refugees
in the neighboring countries. Some refugees have been in the same camps for 20
years and live in the worst overcrowding conditions.
Not everything that is
faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James
Baldwin
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Somali Singer,Saado Ali , to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Toronto:- Somali singer, composer, poet, and songwriter, Saado Ali Warsame, to receive Lifetime Achievement Award for her 35-year musical career and Somali social activism!