Abdi Sinimo

Cabdi Deeqsi Warfaa, more widely known as Abdi Sinimo or Abdi Sinimoo, is a Somali singer and songwriter who established the balwo musical style. [cite book |title=Culture and Customs of Somalia |last=Abdullahi |first=Mohamed Diriye |year=2001 |publisher=Greenwood PublishingGroup |isbn=0313313334 |pages=p. 172 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2Nu918tYMB8C&pg=PA172&dq=%22Abdi+Sinimo%22+OR+%22Abdi+Sinimoo%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=HNvbwFukW92Ue-DOQlUCK8JHwBA#PPA172,M1 |accessdate=2008-06-19] [cite web |url=http://www.gobaad.com/Review.htm |title=Literature of Somali Onomastics and Proverbs ‘With Comparison of Foreign Saying’ |work=Gobaad Press |accessdate=2008-06-19 ] He was born in the 1920s in Jaarahorato, a historical village 25 miles (16km) north-east of Boorama. He was the fourth son in a family of eighteen children, 9 boys and 9 girls.

The first band he created was in Borama during 1944 and it was called Balwo. Members of his band were:-

*Cabdi Deeqsi Warfaa (Abdi Sinimoo)
*Koobali Caashaad
*Hussen Aare Meecaad
*Xaashi Warsame
*Khadiija Ciye Dharaar (Khadiija Balwo)
*Nuuriya Catiiq

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