Emmanuel Jal

Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Alvvays, Metric, Emmanuel Jal, Loud Luxury

PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2022

With an outage affecting Rogers customers nationwide, it's pretty quiet out here today — but Canadian artists are still making a lot of noi...

Emmanuel Jal Returns with New Album 'Shangah'

PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2022

Emmanuel Jal has detailed his seventh studio album. The South Sudanese-Canadian artist and activist will share Shangah on July 8 via Gatwit...

Emmanuel Jal & Nyaruach

Naath

PUBLISHED Aug 24, 2018

By now, most are aware of the backstory of artist and social activist Emmanuel Jal's life as a former child solider from Sudan, but the Tor...

Emmanuel Jal

The Key

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2014

By now, Emmanuel Jal's past as a former child soldier from Sudan — as noted via his 2009 autobiographical account War Child: A Child...

Emmanuel Jal on Life as a Former Child Soldier and Working with Nelly Furtado and Nile Rodgers

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2014

As an artist with a new album The Key and new film The Good Lie, life for Emmanuel Jal couldn't be any more far removed from his past life...

Emmanuel Jal

'The Key' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Sep 2, 2014

Years back, Emmanuel Jal rose to prominence by sharing the story of his past as a child soldier in his book War Child (and documentary of t...

Emmanuel Jal

See Me Mama

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2012

Credited for introducing a much more musically expansive and message-driven form of locally-produced hip-hop to the region surrounding his...