The 24-year-old Canadian musician memorializes friends lost to violence on his debut EP, “When Smoke Rises.” By Jon Caramanica LOS ANGELES — In the middle of Mustafa’s potent, chilling and ...

Sudanese-Canadian artist Mustafa tells Jen Long about his journey from poet to songwriter, and the creation of his first full body of work with the likes of Clairo, Rosalía, JID, Nicholas Jaar and ...

Mustafa's 2021 debut project, When Smoke Rises, is a collection of songs that immortalizes the lives of the friends he's lost to gang violence. The Juno-winning and Polaris Music Prize -shortlisted ...

Mustafa wasn’t too worried when police hauled him and two friends into a Toronto bullpen a couple of years ago. It was his first and only arrest, on a charge that would eventually get dropped, and he ...

Mustafa is a secondary character in the short series of cover art he’s debuted since emerging as a solo artist a year ago — if he’s a character at all. His first single, “Stay Alive,” is visualized ...

Stepping into London’s packed-out EartH Theatre, Mustafa ascends the stage dressed in something of a uniform for him: a bulletproof vest emblazoned with the word ‘POET’. It’s a stark image, a reminder ...