MUSTAFA

Lost in the Dunya Tour

"Dunya", the title of Mustafa's masterfully crafted and breathtakingly tender album, translates from Arabic as "the world with all its faults". A lofty theme for a young songwriter, but as with every subject at the heart of the Sudanese-Canadian artist's work - from religious devotion to childhood trauma, from gang violence to romantic intimacy - he approaches it through a personal lens. Blending genres and moods, weaving novelistic details into memorable folk songs, he has created an album that feels like a series of personal breakthroughs arriving one by one.

What strikes first about Mustafa's music is his writing: a simple, piercing tone that makes each story feel as raw and earnest as the words of a love song. With a soft-spoken delivery that can silence those around him, Mustafa quickly evolved from a child prodigy reciting poetry in his hometown of Toronto to a force behind the songs and writing pop songs.

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