Musa Geshaev was born in Grozny to Chechen parents on August 20, 1940.
He spent his childhood in the village of Meadow in the Zhambyl Province of Kazakhstan, and as a student he started writing poems and stories.
Geshaev returned to Grozny to serve as Senior Inspector at the Chechen-Ingush Ministry of Culture, and from 1967 to 1968 he served as the House Director of the Folklore Culture Movement, under which he created art performances that participated in regional competitions throughout the Soviet Union.
[3] Since the late 1980s Geshaev has been a prolific writer of poetry, and many of his poems have been made into songs which are played in concerts halls and on television and radio.
[3] Chechen bard Imam Alimsultanov sang several of Geshaev's poems.