Kammala wannan jumlar: An haifi Alsarah ne a Khartoum, Sudan. Iyayenta duka biyu masu fafutukar kare hakkin dan adam ne. Lokacin da ta ke da shekaru takwas, iyalinta sun gudu daga kasar a lokacin
1989 juyin mulkin da shugaban gaba Omar al-Bashir ya yi don kauce wa kashe su a matsayin masu adawa. Daga nan suka zauna a Taez, Yemen, kafin su sake guduwa saboda yakin basasar kasar a shekarar 1994. Daga baya sun isa Amurka suna neman mafaka ta siyasa kuma suka zauna a Boston. A wannan lokacin tashin hankali, sau da yawa ta sami ta'aziyya a cikin kiɗa, sauraron rikodin bootleg a Yemen da kuma karɓar darussan piano daga abokiyar iyali.