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Ali Birra (Ali Mohammed Musa) was born on 29 September, 1950 in Dire Dawa, Hararghe Province, Ethiopian Empire, is an Ethiopian singer and composer (1950–2022). Discover Ali Birra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Ali Mohammed Musa
Occupation Singer · composer · poet
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September, 1950
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace Dire Dawa, Hararghe Province, Ethiopian Empire
Date of death 6 November, 2022
Died Place Adama, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Nationality Ethiopia

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1950

Ali Mohammed Musa (Oromo: Alii Birraa; 29 September 1950 – 6 November 2022), known professionally as Ali Birra, was an Ethiopian singer.

He was regarded as the most popular Oromo icon, as well as an influential artist in the other regions and urban areas of Ethiopia.

He had played a lot of songs in Amharic, Afar, Arabic and Somali languages.

Ali was a celebrated as a poet and multi-instrumentalist.

Ali Birra was born in Ganda Kore, Dire Dawa on 29 September 1950.

His parents separated when he was three years old, and was subsequently raised by his father.

He attended Arabic school as a child, where he learned to write the language.

Birra, however, was raised speaking the Oromo language.

He also enrolled in a local public school and pursued his education until sixth grade.

In his early years, Birra would do small street-peddling in order to support his livelihood without begging people for money.

When he was 13, he joined Afran Qallo, a cultural group which he was operating unofficially to promote the Oromo music and culture.

The first time he sang on stage, he sang a song titled "Birra dha Bari'e".

Due to this song, he was given the nickname "Ali Birra".

"Ali" is his first name and "Birra" is the initial song name.

By blending the two words, it creates the meaning "Ali the Spring".

1965

The government banned the Afran Qallo group in 1965 and arrested some of its members.

Birra escaped arrest and moved to Addis Ababa.

After settling in Addis Ababa, he engaged in different activities alongside singing.

On this occasion, Birra came to know the nationalist Ahmad Taqi, and the latter bought him a guitar so that Birra could sing more widely.

Taqi may have influenced him that Ali himself has been one of the Oromo nationalists for the rest of his life.

Though he had songs about his birthplace Dire Dawa and Oromia, he never uttered the word Ethiopia, as Oromo nationalists do.

His fame increased dramatically throughout the city.

In addition to Oromo, his mother tongue, Birra had the ability to sing in Amharic, Arabic, Harari, and Somali languages.

He gained appreciation from different contemporary personalities, including Eyoel Yohannes, at the time the head of Kebur Zabagna, who then recruited him as a solo singer in Oromo.

He joined other famous singers such as Mahmoud Ahmed, Tilahun Gessesse and Bizunesh Bekele.

Birra traveled with the group through Ethiopia and Sudan to sing with well-known celebrities like Mohammed Wardi.

When he was in Addis Ababa, he would perform in large venues such as the Hager Fikir Theatre and Ras Theatre.

Following a discussion with his father, he left Addis Ababa.

1970

In the early 1970s, at the break of the Ethiopian Revolution, Ahmad Taqi was killed in eastern Ethiopia while fighting the Ethiopian army.

Ali Birra mourned deeply and sang metaphorically:

Yaa Hundee Bareeda

Yaa Finxee Midhaga

Hundee was the nom de guerre for Ahmad Taqi.

Birra continued his career both as a musician and a composer.

1971

He produced his first album in 1971, the first in the history of Oromo music.

He then recorded successful hits such as "Hin Yaadin", "Asabalee", "Ammalelee", and "Gamachu".

His albums included Sudanese songs such as "Al-Habib Ween" and Harari songs such as "Yidenqal".

Birgitta Åström, a Swedish admirer of Birra who had been a vice-secretary at the Swedish Embassy in Addis Ababa, asked to marry him.

1985

Birra agreed and married her in 1985.

1986

In 1986, Birra's wife was transferred to Saudi Arabia, and Birra accompanied her to the country.