![]() His next album, Ceasefire, was recorded in collaboration with established Northern Sudanese singer Abdel Gadir Salim. Gua also earned him a spot on Bob Geldof's "Live 8" concert in the UK. In 2005 he released his first album, Gua, with the title track broadcast by BBC across Africa and becoming a No. To help ease the pain of his past, Jal started singing. Tragically, his newly found mother died in a car accident a year later. After a series of harrowing events, he was rescued by a British aid worker, Emma McCune, who smuggled him into Nairobi to raise him as her own. By the time he was 13, Jal was a war veteran and had seen hundreds of fellow boys reduced to taking unspeakable measures as they struggled to survive on the battlefields and in the desert. For nearly five years, he was a child soldier, put into battle carrying an AK-47 that was taller than him. ![]() When he was about 7, he was sent to Ethiopia, to be trained to fight in the Sudanese civil war. ![]() ![]() Jal was born in Southern Sudan in the early 1980s. At Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert, Peter Gabriel called him an artist "with a potential of a young Bob Marley." ![]()
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