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Abdi Qays (Somali: Cabdi Aadan Xaad Cabdi Qays, Abdi Aadan Haad Abdi Qays, Arabic: عبدي آدن حاد) born in Hargeisa in the year 1940 under the British Somaliland protectorate was the only poet in Somali language to be Singer/Songwriter/Musician, Poet and Playwright.
Abdi Qays was called by his nickname after playing the part of Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah in the Arabic play Layla and Majnun in Djibouti in the early 1960s and from those days the name stuck with him.
Abdi Qays made a duo with the queen vocalist in the Somali speaking world the famous Khadra Daahir where he wrote her most of the love songs and poems and was part in playing the Oud sometimes . He lives in Hargeisa somaliland until now.
here is a part of the famous Dalaay Poem which was started by him and Hadraawi in the late 1970s and is against the Siad Barre regime.
The lyrics of Abdi Qeys' rebuttal is: