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John garang dau John Garang Dau PictureThe Sudanese, Dinka Bor Singer John Garang Dau was born in Mar-Town of Southern Sudan, and raise between Sudan and Ethiopia; He is a fifth born of 7 kids and a music lover in his family. His music skill and talent came from refugee hopelessness life, and singing just for the sake of entertaining his fellows and friends. At age thirteen, he taught himself to play Rababa (a Sudanese guitar) at night in total darkness in despondent life of refugee camps. His first live performance was over a P.A. system for an audience of about 17,000 people in the Dimma Refugee camp in Western Ethiopia. Speaking to John at DePaul University, Lincoln-park campus, he said “as I could imagine the living situation in camps, entertaining was the only thing I could possibly think as a way of relieve other’s stress” He also added that, My heart was touched by the life of poor innocent civilians in which majority population uses to have standard life before civil war”. So far, his music journey has taken him many miles through several countries and into very different and unique cultures. His music travels with him and seems to be enjoyed by a wide variety of audiences. He said, “I love to perform and write music and am thrilled to try to speak to the musical soul of the individuals of my audiences”. As a young kid, John fled the war in Sudan and moved to Ethiopia for a better education; in 1997 his father was hospitalized due to a gunshot during civil war in Sudan and made him an orphan. Currently, he is in Chicago where he is working on his album "Why Us God?" While in Chicago, he has also managed to share the stage with various other African artists. So far John plans to be touring soon...