Sara Larsson

Sara Larsson, known asSaRaha, was born in Sweden in 1983. At the age of two, she moved to Tanzaniawith her parents, where she spent long periods of her childhood. She returnedas an adult to live in Tanzania in 2009 and quickly became a part of the EastAfrican Pop music scene.

SaRaha has been composing, singing and performingher music since her late teens, in Sweden and Zimbabwe, where she has workedwith different types of pop music and performed with different bandconstellations. In 2009 she revisited Tanzania and discovered the East Africanpop music, which has been her musical focus since then. In 2011 she started workingunder her stage name SaRaha.

The video for a short acoustic version of SaRaha’sfirst Swahili song, Tanesco, was played daily on TBC1 during 2011. She becamecemented as a Tanzanian artist after featuring the artist Akil in the song MyDear which was released in July 2011. The video following the songwas nominated in the category ‘best video’ in Kilimanjaro Music Awards 2012.Since then SaRaha has been releasing singles that have receiveda lot of attention in the Tanzanian media. She has also worked together with other Tanzanian Hip Hopand Afro pop artists, such as Fid Q, Makamua, Joh Makini, Linex and ChidiBeenz.

During the last few years SaRaha has done somemajor live performances, Miss Tanzania, ZIFF (ZanzibarInternational Film Festival) and Kilimanjaro Music Awards to mention a few. Shehas also appeared in Tanzanian TV shows such as Bongo Beats – StarTV, Ben naMei – TBC and The Chidi Beenz Show.

In 2013 SaRaha entered the global musiccompetition GLOBALROCKSTAR with her song Jambazi. Competing with artists from 72 countries from all over theworld, SaRaha achieved second place.

During 2014 SaRaha's music has started gettingairtime on major radio stations in Sweden, and her song Mbele Kiza entered themain Swedish pop charts “Svensktoppen”. In April she released her album Mbele Kiza following the two singles Dadido and Shemeji.

In March 2015 she releasedher first single in Swedish, Yerere.