Siciid85 wrote:RuralMan08, sxb no offence but where does it say it is berbera?
Cabdi Sinimo was not even in the Waaberi Popular Somali musical supergroup.
Siciid in regards to Cabdi Sinimo, do you know that Abdullahi Qarshe used to look up to him for inspiration?
mrsh: So what followed?
Abdullahi Qarshe : I arrived in Hargeisa and stayed with a family friend called Mahmud
Abdi Arale.
Abdi Sinimo’s belwo was already making an impact
on the urban population. However, there were only a few musicians
and they were either Arabs or Indians inspired by the new Somali
genre of the belwo. There were two main characters: Ina Beenaale, an
Indian, and Abdo Yusuf, a Yemeni. They played basic instruments, the
most important being the violin. They invited me to join them, so I did,
but I was not yet really proficient in playing. We tried to create softer
lyrics than classical Somali poetry and accompany it with music. In the
beginning, it was not easy, and our band consisted of a mixture of
clapping, the tambourine, and drumming. For instance, we wanted to
inject some music into Elmi Bowdheri’s famous love poetry, and formulate
songs. Where the alliteration was not feasible, we added Arabic
or Hindi lyrics. At this stage, I wanted to earn some money and make
use of the educational skills I acquired in Aden. Thus, I applied for a
clerical post in the British colonial administration and succeeded. As a
result, I was transferred first to Burao and then later to Berbera. It was
in Berbera that I started to focus more on practicing my lute, after I met
an elderly man named Bakri whom I asked to teach me the basics of
the instrument.
In regards to Berbera we were always close by
Source: "Between the jaws of hyenas": a diplomatic history of Ethiopia, 1876-1896