1884-1963
He was born in Koysinjaq. He was taught the Syriac language. Christian education and church hymns by the church priests of the city. His father died in 1903, so he moved to work with a weaver. Then he served as a deacon at St. Joseph Church in Koysinjaq, but he made his living as Sewa’s singing was until the forties restricted to such places as (traditional gathering places) and circles of friends. In 1952, he recorded five musical scales (Maqanms) for the Iraqi radio station. In the years 1958 and 1959 he was invited to Sulaimaniya and Arbil to hold big singing parties. He managed to compose interesting songs using the liturgical tunes with words from the popular Kurdish poetry. Among the most prominent Kurdish songs that he sang using liturgical Syriac tunes was “Maqam Arey Golee’ that he sang using the tune of “Qum Shappeer’, which was known from the first centuries of Christianity. He sang a lot in the fifties whether with the band of Bawagy in Koysinjaq or with the band of Mawlawy in Sulaimaniya or in the private parties which were mostly held in the orchards. However, most of these songs were not recorded except for a few ones, and most of these few songs were lost. an accountant working with traders and tobacco farmers.
