Maryam Mursal has been played on NTS in shows including The NTS Breakfast Show , featured first on 4 November 2021. Songs played include Somali Udiida Ceb = Somalia, Don't Shame Yourself.

Maryam Mursal (born 1st January 1950) is a prominent composer and vocalist from Somalia. She grew up in a family with four daughters. Up to the sixties performing music publicly was reserved mainly for men; but Maryam Mursal was determined not to let her gender hold her back form reaching her goals. Confronting this centuries-old tradition she became, in 1966, one of the few professional female vocalists in her country. She performed in…