Rainforest Festival: Youngest performer Nikita aims to score big as sape player


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 (RWMF) 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.

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