# Hibo Nuura (Hibo Maxamed Nuur)

> Hibo Nuura (born 1954): Waaberi singer from Awdal, a leading voice of Somali love songs and national songs.

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## Who is she?

Hibo Nuura is one of the most prominent Somali singers ([Wikipedia, Hibo Nura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). Her full name is Hibo Mohamed Hudon (same source). Music in Africa lists her among the country's greatest women singers ([Music in Africa, "Somali music through the ages"](https://www.musicinafrica.net/node/25169)).

## Early life and first songs

She was born in Dilla, [Awdal](/en/regions/awdal/), in 1954 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). She began her music career as a teenager in 1968 (same source).

## With Waaberi

She became famous as a member of Waaberi, the national music troupe ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). She was known for love songs and for patriotic songs (same source). Waaberi performed at the National Theatre in Mogadishu ([WardheerNews, interview, 7 October 2013](https://wardheernews.com/?p=12354)). Her career spanned nearly fifty years ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). See [Somali music](/en/society/somali-music/).

## Abroad

She travelled abroad at the end of 1990 ([WardheerNews](https://wardheernews.com/?p=12354)). She was away when the government fell in January 1991 and Waaberi broke up (same source). She lived in Germany (same source). Wikipedia also records her living in Minneapolis ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). See [Somalis in Germany](/en/diaspora/germany/).

## Coming home

She returned to Mogadishu on 10 September 2013, after more than two decades away ([WardheerNews](https://wardheernews.com/?p=12354)). Wikipedia dates her return to 2014 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). The Benadir administration invited her ([WardheerNews](https://wardheernews.com/?p=12354)). She planned songs to encourage the city's recovery (same source). "The country needs to be rebuilt as we have fallen behind 20 years," she said (same source).

## A change in 2015

In February 2015 she said she would leave the music industry for religious reasons ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibo_Nura)). She said she would keep singing national, patriotic songs (same source).

## In her words

"I want to tell Somalis wherever they may be that the country is peaceful," she said on her return ([WardheerNews](https://wardheernews.com/?p=12354)).

## In short

A singer whose career spans more than fifty years, who returned to perform in Mogadishu in the 2010s.

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