Singer Saif Al-Jamaa: Singers are in a status of separation from reality

* The mass media is a reason for the art situation 

*I have new work to register

Interview – Magda Hassan

The humanitarian scene is missing the Sudanese singer .His societal role diminished during this war, which has reached its eighth month, without witnessing any artistic initiatives, whether at the level of artistic work or community work and collecting donations for treatment, shelter, and other needs. Rather, the singer dissolved as a displaced and refugee without thinking about using the lights around him to benefit society.
that pointed to the lack of political awareness of what stardom entails.
The singer Saif Al-Jamaa, despite his political awareness, was subjected to these accusations, and his response was as follows:
* Singers stopped singing at a time when the country needs their voices?
I have not stopped. I have new, ongoing and inciting works, but I am facing a problem with a recording studio. I spoke to Atbara Radio and National TV in Port Sudan, but there was no response.
*This is on the technical level!
Yes, on the technical level, there are ambitious projects on the way if the financial capabilities are available
* Why do we feel that singers lack a sense of responsibility in these circumstances?
Unfortunately, there is a state of irresponsibility, and there is a state of separation for many singers from reality
*What is the reason for this?
The weakness of the moral conscience of some of them, which was prevalent before the war, and this state of inattention, which is accompanied by the lack of interest from the media and culture agencies and their abandonment of their role in supporting true creators who do not possess productive tools, is one of the hidden reasons for the outbreak of this war.
*Do you mean that the mass media is a partner with singers in not feeling responsible?
Yes, as I mentioned, the media stopped supporting true artists, and as a result, art lost its role in combating manifestations such as hate speech that spreads through social media, vulgarity, and vulgarity, which have become an inherent feature of all or most of the products of those classified as male or female stars.
*But there is a state of flatness among artists and a search for trends in matters other than serious ones. Do you agree with me?
This is true. Recently, they have become increasingly preoccupied with exoticism, which produces empty trends that do not befit a great country like Sudan, where people are in a state of war targeting all human, cultural and moral achievements and territorial and national unity.
* How do you see the role of the artist in war conditions?
I see that the role of artists goes beyond party and tribal affiliation, and we need great collective action that makes the Sudanese people spend time in front of the television screen to emerge with new convictions that will get us out of this historical impasse, work that is inspired by our Sudanese experience in overcoming all difficulties and crises and sharpening inspirations and energies away from the wooden language that prevails these days.