Welcome to the Unheard Music Project!
The history of music is the history of people’s stories. The Unheard Music Project celebrates refugee-made music by maintaining an archive of refugee-made compositions and performances from all over the globe. These songs celebrate art, experience, culture, history, community, and love, while documenting exile, isolation, struggle, and grief. They carry ‘home’ in their harmonies, and bring people together.
The Unheard Music Project supports refugee artists not only by providing a streaming platform for their music, but also by directly supporting unheard musicians through financial remuneration, networking, and exposure.
Meet Our Artists
Spoken Word by Atem Diing
Atem Diing Alaak is a 25-year-old refugee. Born and raised in Khartoum, he moved to South Sudan in 2012 with his family and fled to Kenya when the war started. He currently lives in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He started school again in English after becoming a refugee at the age of 16.
Pacifique Fungulo
I’m Amani Pacifique fungulo, singer-songwriter, holder of a bachelor degree in didactic of chemistry, born in the province of Sud-kivu in DRC! A young brother of many elder brothers and sisters. I m Congolese who lives actually in south africa as a asylum seeker
Gloria S Shukrani
I’m Gloria Sifa Shukrani. I was born in Republic Democratic Of Congo South Kivu province in 12. 08. 1991. I attended primary and secondary in Uvira city. I was born in a family of 6 siblings. We are a Christian family. I started to sing at the age of 8 years in a Sunday school in my village Kiliba Ondes. I started song writing at the age of 20 years
Chi Suwichan
Musician Chi Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan is a member of the Karen ethnic group. He is also an actor and composer, best known for “Songs from the Karen Forest” (2012). He lives in Mae Sot in northern Thailand and is a well-known activist for the Karen. Through his music, he advocates for ethnic equality and cultural identity and love for nature.
Eraghone Ely
Eraghone Ely, 26, is a Congolese musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, dancer, director, video editor, and businessman who goes by the stage name Eraghone (Eraghone Empire).
Eh Ku Thay
Eh Ku Thay, 19, left his village in Karen state in Myanmar two years ago, to study at Thoo Mweh Khee Migrant Learning Centre in Mae Sot in northern Thailand. Inspired by Justin Bieber, Ku Thay had always wanted to be a singer, but he never had the opportunity to learn to sing as there were no singing teachers in his mountain village.