POPULAR SOMALIAN MELODY KING MOHAMED SALEBAN TUBEC HAS DIED .
14 Mar 2014 Over now to Garowe in Somali where popular Somali singer Mohamed Saleban Tubec has died.
The singer whose career spans over thirty years is reported to have passed away following complications with pneumonia. According to Garowe Online, he passed away at Barmherzige Bruder hospital in Germany on Tuesday.
He had previously undergone two surgeries the past year following the persistence of the illness.
To many Somalis, his albums are the most spectacular in the history of Somali music.
Tubec was born in Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia’s separatist administration of Somaliland in 1946.
He leaves behind three wives, four sons, three daughters and 32 children.