Elmiene Releases “For The Deported” EP Honouring Sudan

British-Sudanese singer Elmiene released his full EP, For The Deported, a six-track project that honours his Sudanese heritage through both music and lyrics, on 6 December 2024.

The EP opens with “The Deported”, which he released with a video on YouTube on 27 November 2024 with the caption saying, ‘Sudan is the reason I’m here right now. Sudan is the reason I feel like I am as musical as I am or I was so inclined to poetry. I feel like Sudan is a country with a lot of history and tragedy and emotions and feelings and a really, really deep cultural history. And I don’t know. I feel like there’s nothing like the words that we use to describe those complex things.’

For The Deported is Elmiene’s fourth EP and is produced by Dan Wilson, Jim-E Stack, Buddy Ross, Jamie Woon and John Fellner. The six-track EP, includes the tracks “Open Light”, “Grave News”, “Avalon”, “Promise Me A Rose” and “Golden”, and sees Elmiene embrace his Sudanese heritage both musically and lyrically, drawing from his homeland, Sudan, and turned beautiful poems to songs have. 

According to New Wave Magazine, Elmiene recently reunited with various extended family members at a wedding in Egypt in the beginning of 2014, following a seven-year separation, which led to eye-opening conversations surrounding life, love and the condition of the world we live in now. As a result, For The Deported came to life.

Elmiene has recently established himself as an artist who has attracted a loyal fanbase. He has collected millions of streams across his discography, he has received widespread acclaim from BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. He appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk, a series of intimate live music performances held in National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington DC, on 11 November 2024 where he performed “Marking My Time” “Light Work” “Crystal Tears” “Anyways” and “Someday” – all featured on his Anyway I Can EP – and he acknowledged his Sudanese roots and wore a long white jalabiya-like outfit decorated with various artworks, including the flag of Sudan on the top left of his chest.

In 2023, his debut EL-MEAN EP was followed by the Marking My Time EP, Marking My Time (Again) EP, Live from 525, and Anyway I Can EP, of which lead single ‘Someday’ amassed over 14 mn Spotify stream. He also emerged with various collaborations with artists such as Stormzy, Leon Thomas, Sampha, Syd and Dahi.