Mohamed Nuur Giriig

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Mohamed Nuur Giriig محمد نور غيريغ
Birth name	Maxamed Nuur Giriig
Born	1935 Berbera, British Somaliland (now Somaliland)
Origin	Somali
Died	2002 Hargeisa, Somaliland
Genres	Somali music
Instrument	vocals
Years active	1960s-1990s

Musical artist

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

Biography

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Giriig was born in 1935 in Berbera, now Somaliland 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.