Hudeidi, who was descended from the
Warsangeli tribe of Somalia, was born in
Berbera in 1928 and raised in
Yemen, where his father was a police sergeant. Hudeidi was always fascinated by music, and fell in love with the oud when his father took him to a party in
Aden where an Arab man was playing the instrument. He learned how to play it from
Abdullahi Qarshe, who advised Hudeydi's father to buy his son an oud and a pick as well as books and writing instruments for school. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hudeidi lived in
Yemen,
Somalia, and
Djibouti, playing the oud and getting into trouble for singing politically rebellious songs as well as from rival musicians. == Death ==