Safiath

Safia Aminami Issoufou Oumarou (born 15 April 1982), known professionally as Safiath, is a Nigerien singer, rapper, and songwriter.

==Early life and career beginnings== Safiath was born in Khartoum, and is ethnically Tuareg and Kanuri; she was born to a Sudanese mother and a Nigerien father. She went to Morocco to study economics and banking. In Rabat, she joined a group that performed salsa, in which she played guitar; she then returned to Niger, where she found it easier to gain work as a musician than using her degrees.