Mohamed Nuur Giriig

Mohamed Nuur Giriig
محمد نور غيريغ
Birth name Maxamed Nuur Giriig
Born 1935
Berbera, Somalia
Origin Somali
Died 2002
Hargeisa, Somalia
Genres Somali music
Instruments vocals
Years active 1960s-1990s

Mohamed Nuur Giriig (Somali: Maxamed Nuur Giriig, Arabic: محمد نور غيريغ) (b. 1935 - d.2002) was a Somali singer, specializing in traditional Somali music.

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:

See also

all his songs on masuul


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