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The first radio station in Somalia to air popular Somali music was Radio Kudu based in Hargeisa, modern-day Somaliland. The first song to be broadcast was composed by Guroon Jire in 1940 in English, Somali and Arabic, before being renamed the following year to Radio Somali. [13] The head of the Music department was Mohamed Saeed (Guroon jire).
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]
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 ...
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]
Her second album, Faransiskiyo Somaliland, was released in 2015. The music combined Tuareg rock and East African rhythms. [12] In 2015, she returned to live in Somalia after going back and forth between her native region and France. She founded a cultural center devoted to music and poetry in Hargeisa, her
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.
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.
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.