Ebo Krdum

Ebo Krdum is a Sudanese-Swedish self-taught singer, guitarist, artist and activist. He creates contemporary political afro-blues music rooted in several musical traditions around the sub-Saharan area. Ebo sings in many different languages and his lyrics contains topics such as justice, equality, diversity and liberty.

When Ebo was only six years old he discovered that he could sing and drum and he started entertaining people in his village, sometimes getting paid with a small penny or sweets. At the age of thirteen he built his own guitar and learned how to play listening to his father’s radio and the only black-white TV in the village, where he got to hear artists such as Ali Farka Touré and Boubacar Traoré.

When the war started in Darfur in 2003 Ebo became an important voice for the peaceful revolution against the corrupt and violent regime. Beside his musical participation in the situation he was active in a huge activism for the opposition that aimed to overthrow the dictatorship in Sudan, which also became the reason why he was forced to flee the country. Ebo is now based in Sweden, where he has established himself as one of the most prominent world music acts on the music scene.

His song Revolution Call is the first single from the upcoming full-length album ' Diversity ' in 2021, where he in addition to combining Scandinavian folk music with afro-blues and afrobeat sings in eight different languages, in his collaboration with the record label Supertraditional.