He belonged to the Mousa Arreh subdivision of the Habar Yoonis sub clan of Garhajis Isaaq that mainly inhabits the Togdheer region of Somaliland.

[5] In 1931, at the behest of his family, he left Tanzania and settled in Aden, Yemen for his education, where he subsequently memorized the entire Quran.

2 page 80, he affirmed that "modern music was in the air at the time of Abdi Sinimo, who is widely regarded as the genius who formulated and organized it into the belwo and thus took well deserved credit and honor for it.

In 1955 Qarshe founded the Walaalo Hargeisa troupe which performed various plays around Somaliland, one of them being Soomaalidii Hore iyo Somaalidii dambe (Somalis past and present).

[7][8][3] In 1957 when working at Radio Hargesia he was asked to compose the signature tune for BBC Somalia for which he used a melody he originally wrote to the words of an anti-colonial poem.