He was born on
01-07-192701-07-1927, He stopped going to school after he finished the 5th grade of primary school. Since his childhood he worked as a greengrocer, he worked with Darwish Baqal and then with Rasha Janjar until 1974. Because of his job he spent most of his time in Sharazoor,
BaghdadBaghdad and
TehranTehran.
Although he had left school since an early he still had a very nice handwriting. He knew Arabic and Persian well, he knew Indian as well because in Habania he was a soldier with the British Indian soldiers.
He was the alderman of Goizha street until 1975. He passed away on
19-08-200819-08-2008 .
He had a very nice voice full of emotion and sadness, we could easily feel his voice leaving his larynx passing through our souls. He has left behind only a record of his songs, and this song had been recoreded in 1956, because of that song he was imprisoned for a while by regime that was on power in that time, it seems he had other songs but they were destroyed.
Bangina who is a Kurdish poet has a poem that he wrote for the death of Sheikh Mahmood Hafid and Baqir Hussain turned this poem into a very nice song in (maqam) style, he had added two lines of his own to the original poem.
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