Sinimo was born in the 1920s in Jaarahorato, an historical village situated in Awdal, Somalia. He was the fourth son in a family of eighteen children, consisting of nine boys and nine girls. The establisher of the balwo genre.
Example of balwo still played in waqooyi, koonfuur somalia:
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Source: Heelloy: modern poetry and songs of the Somali By John William Johnson