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Hudeidi (Xudeydi)
Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi (1928 to 2020), known as Hudeidi or Xudeydi, was a Somali oud player and composer. Born in Berbera and raised in Yemen, he learned the oud from Abdullahi Qarshe, played across Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti in the 1950s and 1960s, moved to Britain in 1973, and died in London of COVID-19 in April 2020.
HudeidiXudeydi · Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi
- Lived
- 1928 to 2020-04-08
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- Toward independence, 1920 to 1960; The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who was he?
Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi was a Somali musician who played the oud and composed songs (Wikipedia, Hudeidi). He was born in Berbera in 1928 and grew up in Yemen, where his father was a police sergeant (same source).
Music
He fell in love with the oud after hearing it played at a party in Aden (Wikipedia). He learned to play from Abdullahi Qarshe, who advised his father to buy him an oud as well as school books (same source). See Abdullahi Qarshe.
In the 1950s and 1960s he lived in Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti, and got into trouble for singing politically rebellious songs (same source). In 1973 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he played at family weddings and other private events and taught the oud (same source). See Somalis in London.
He gave a final concert at the Kayd Somali Arts and Culture centre in February 2020 (same source). He died of COVID-19 in London on 8 April 2020, eight days before his 92nd birthday (same source).
In short
An oud master taught by Abdullahi Qarshe who played across the Horn and Yemen and spent his last decades in London.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Hudeidi · en.wikipedia.org
HudeidiXudeydi · Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi
- Lived
- 1928 to 2020-04-08
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- Toward independence, 1920 to 1960; The Republic, 1960 to 1991; Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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