Sinkane

Sinkane (born Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab around 1983) is a Sudanese-American musician who blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop. He is signed to City Slang Records.

Born in London to university-teacher parents, he then lived in Sudan, before moving to the United States at the age of five; he lived for a time in Provo, Utah, before moving to Kent, Ohio, in eighth grade, and graduating from Kent's Theodore Roosevelt High School in 2002. He then moved to Columbus to study at Ohio State University. Before his solo career, he was a session musician for Eleanor Friedberger, Caribou, of Montreal, Born Ruffians and Yeasayer.

Ahmed Gallab is singer and musical director of the Atomic Bomb! Band, which plays the music of Nigerian funk musician William Onyeabor, alongside musicians such as David Byrne, Damon Albarn, Dev Hynes, Alexis Taylor, Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders, among others.

Gallab composed the music for the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's book The Enormous Crocodile, which premiered at Leeds Playhouse in December 2023 before playing in London at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre on 22 May 2024; he was nominated at the Stage Debut Awards in the category of best composer, lyricist or writer.

On 10 February 2017, Sinkane released his sixth album, Life & Livin' It, on City Slang.