KUCHING: Names like Jerry Kamit and Elizabeth Bungan are among the renowned musicians when it comes to sape or sampe, which is the traditional lute of the Orang Ulu community, namely the Kenyah and Kayan, in Sarawak.
For a young sape player, Nikita Sarna, 11, the youngest performer at the Rainforest World Music Festival 2022, Jerry has always been her idol in sape industry, hence, she hoped to open a sape class one day in order to chase her dream to become a professional musician, following Jerry’s and Elizabeth’s footsteps.
"My first idol in sape is Jerry Kamit. My cousin introduced me to Hallan Hashim who is now my teacher. He is the one who told me about Alena Murang and now I cannot believe that I am actually playing sape alongside Alena,” she told Bernama recently. "RWMF is fun and this is my first time performing in front of a big crowd such as this. I am happy yet extremely nervous to perform here,” she said.
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