Background
Giriig was born in 1935 in Berbera, Somalia to a Warsangali Darod family, originally from Las Khorey on the Maakhir Coast.
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Mohamed Giriig
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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.
