Khadra was born in 1957 in Hargeisa, the administrative center city of British Somaliland.
[1] During Khadra's school years, she was a basketball player and competed in national tournaments.
[2] Khadra debuted in 1974 at the age of 17 as a member of the dance unit Dabjecayl kari waa of the Somali music group Waaberi.
[3] According to Khadra's recollections, during the decade of the 1970s Somali became more tolerant of women becoming singers and began to gain popularity.
[6] On June 25, 2022, Khadra died of pneumonia[1] or leukemia[7] at the International Hospital in Hargeisa at age 65.