A long time resident of the Ng'ambo section of Zanzibar City, she later traveled throughout East Africa performing and selling thousands of records. So popular among the masses was this new recorded music, from one of their own in their own language, that some scholars attribute much of modern spread and regional domination of the Swahili Language to these early recordings.
Baada ya kuishi kwa muda mrefu katika mitaa ya Ng'ambo mjini Zanzibar, baadaye Siti alitembelea nchi mbali mbali za Afrika ya Mashariki akiimba na kuuza rekodi zake. Lililompa umaarufu zaidi miongoni mwa watu ilikuwa ni muziki mpya uliorekodiwa katika lugha yao wenyewe.