Once known as the “Madonna of Sudanese pop,” Bulu-Bulu enjoyed immense recognition in the mid-’80s with an upbeat design that wove suggestive lyrics alongside the extremely erotic traditional wedding “dove-dance,” and in 1986 wowed viewers in the Khartoum International Good. With the introduction from the fundamentalists’ program, she experienced great persecution, becoming beaten up, publicly slurred, and prohibited from performing.