Sahad
Sahad Sarr, founder of the SAHAD group and Stereo Africa 432, carries an Afro-Kaleidoscopic fusion, from Lumma to African West Station, to Nuits d'Afrique de Montréal.
Sahad Sarr is a Senegalese singer and guitarist, founder and leader of the SAHAD group, an independent and self-produced project active for more than a decade. His stage name refers to the "harvest" in sererus and the "resurrection" in Wolof. After the EP Nataal in 2015 and the album Jiw in 2017, he published Lumma in 2023, an opus mixing Afro-fusion, jazz and Sahelian sounds, hailed by critics.
In 2016, he founded the independent Stereo Africa 432 label in Senegal, which accompanies emerging artists of alternative music and organizes the Stereo Africa Festival in Dakar. His tours led him to scenes in Europe, the United States, North Africa and Kenya.
Finalist of the RFI 2025 Discovery Award for Senegal, he presented in 2025 African West Station, a four-year research project in the archives of West African music of independence, and performed at the Festival international Nuits d'Afrique de Montréal.