Birth name Maxamed Nuur Giriig Years active 1960s-1990s Name Mohamed Giriig | Role Singer Instruments vocals | |
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Similar People Mohamed Mooge Liibaan, Magool, Waaberi, Maryam Mursal, Hasan Adan Samatar | ||
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Mohamed Nuur Giriig (Somali: Maxamed Nuur Giriig, Arabic: محمد نور غيريغ) (1935–2002) was a Somali singer, specializing in traditional Somali music.
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Biography
Giriig was born in 1935 in Berbera, Somalia to a Warsangali Darod family, originally from Las Khorey on the Maakhir Coast.
In 1954, he was among a group of auditioners, from which he was selected to join a troupe of Oud singers. Giriig's musical career began after that, which was marked by a number of hit songs. Most of the latter were recorded during the Somali music scene's Golden Age in the 1960s.
Giriig died in Hargeisa on January 17, 2002.
Discography
Some of Giriig's all-time classic songs include:
References
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