Mohamed Ali Fourchette

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| birth_name = Mohamed Ali Fourchette

| birth_date = 1950

| birth_place = Djibouti, French Somaliland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1992|1950|}}

| death_place = Djibouti City, Djibouti

| origin = Djibouti

| instrument = Oud, Electric guitar, Vocals

| genre = Djiboutian music

| occupation = Musician

| years_active = 1960s–1992

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Mohamed Ali Fourchette (1950–1992) was a prominent Djiboutian vocalist and instrumentalist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.djibnet.com/mabraze/topic/15682-mohamed-ali-fourchette-un-artiste-inoubliable/ |title=Mohamed Ali Fourchette : Un Artiste Inoubliable |language=fr |trans-title=Mohamed Ali Fork: An Unforgettable Artist |access-date=2019-07-22|publisher=djibnet|date=July 19, 2008}}{{better source needed|date=July 2019}}

History

Mohamed Ali Fourchette was born in 1946 in Djibouti, French Somaliland. He hails from Issa, Somali parents. Mohamed's involvement with music began at a very early age, with him first taking up singing during childhood. He later started to play the guitar.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8cZPmXkGooC&q=mohamed+ali+%22fourchette%22|title=Djibouti contemporain |date=18 December 2012 |publisher=Djibouti contemporain|isbn=9782811108250 }} He went on stage for the first time in 1965 at the age of 15 with Abdi Bow Bow and Abdo Xamar Qoodh. He was shortly afterwards inducted to the Gacan Macan. In the 1970s, Fourchette sang famous patriotic song called Gobanimo meaning independence against the French colonization.

He died on 3 January 1993 in Peltier Hospital in Djibouti City, Djibouti.

=Singles=

  • Gobanimo
  • Dhamee Allaahayoow
  • Ma Dhamaystirno
  • Walaalayaal
  • Maw liihii Na Oumaa
  • Guusha
  • Masiibo lugaley

See also

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