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He later moved to Hargeisa, Somaliland in the late 1950s, and then on to Mogadishu in 1973. Feiruz's career began with Radio Hargeisa in the late 1950s. He was one of the first popular Somali kaban ( oud ) players in the 1950s, and eventually began incorporating modern instruments into his performances in the 1960s, such as the guitar, violin ...
Xiddigaha Geeska (The Horn Stars) (Arabic: نجوم القرن) is a Somali music band from Somaliland. [1] [2] The band is funded by Somaliland's Ministry of Information and National Guidance. [3] The band is led by Hasan Dhuhul Labsalah (Somali: Xasan Dhuxul Laabsaalax). [2]
The first major form of modern Djiboutian music began in the mid-1940s, when Djibouti was a part of the French Somaliland. Djiboutian music is characterized by poetry, so that listening to a Djiboutian song is first paying attention to its meaning. The artist rocks the listeners in the cheerfulness of the refrains and the turn of the sentences.
During the peak of his career, he spent a lot of time in Djibouti to avoid fame and for his prison term. [3] Abdi Qays collaborated with Khadra Daahir, the queen vocalist of the Somali-speaking world. Abdi Qays wrote most of the duo's love songs and poems and sometimes played the Oud. [4] He currently lives in Hargeisa, Somaliland. [5]
After the start of the somali civil war in the 1990s Tubeec relocated to Djibouti then Kolding Denmark where he introduced his latest album Nasteexo. In April 2013 Tubeec made his last song Melody "Iisoo dhawaaw" by Hodan Abdirahman ft. Abdifatah Yare. [4] On 11 March 2014 he died in a hospital in Germany.
Somali songs are pentatonic.That is, they only use five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale.At first listen, Somali music might be mistaken for the sounds of nearby regions such as Oromo in Ethiopia, Sudan or the Arabian Peninsula, but it is ultimately recognizable by its own unique tunes and styles.
The first Somali radio was Radio Kudu currently known Radio Hargeisa, and it still is the only radio that operates in Somaliland, Radio Hargeisa which was founded in 1942, in the name of Radio Kudu was founded British colony when Somaliland took its independence from Britain on 26 June 1960, Radio Kudu was renamed to Radio Hargeisa and it became the state-owned media.
Mooge was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, and was a member of the Eidagale clan of the larger Isaaq Somali clan. He and his brother Ahmed Mooge Liibaan started singing and composing Somali literature at a young age. He worked as a school teacher before starting his music career.