Do Arabs like this originally come from Ethiopia/Somalia

[empressjamila]

I was looking at this video for an an arabic song I heard on tiktok and I noticed that the lead singer looks kind of east african and so do some of the kids in the background.

the song is from Kuwait, did some East Africans go there and mix with the Arabs?

 

[Aurelian]

There were huge amount of Eritreans, Ethiopians and Chadians in the Saudi economy for decades, there are probably 3rd or even 4th generation of these immigrants

 

[Som]

I was looking at this video for an an arabic song I heard on tiktok and I noticed that the lead singer looks kind of east african and so do some of the kids in the background.

the song is from Kuwait, did some East Africans go there and mix with the Arabs?

No usually no.
Black Arabs in the gulf countries are of two different types.
-immigrants from muslim countries: contrary to popular belief at least in Saudi Arabia most black saudis aren't descendants of slaves, they are mostly descendants of immigrants from muslim parts of Nigeria and Sudan who settled in Saudi after doing Hajj or for trade/religious studies in the 19th-20th century. If you look at the Saudi national football team you will notice surnames like Hawsawi which is common for saudis with nigerian heritage from the Hausa people.
Even in Palestine, Jordan etc there are small communities of these black arabs.


-descendants of slaves: these are more common in Kuwait, Iraq etc and they are usually mixed with arabs. They originally came from the kenyan coast but some may have ethiopian(mainly oromo) origin.

In yemen both types are present. Some Yemeni muwallads(mixed people) have somali or ethioipian origin because of somali traders. In the 1800s almost half of Aden under british occupation was inhabited by somalis. Some other South yemenis have ethiopian non-slavery related admixture.
The second type who come from slaves is the Akhdam people who have mixed origin probably from the kenya/tanzani/Mozambique area. They are treated much worse than regular black yemenis with horner admixture.