[2] Muko was born on October 21, 1899, in Himarë, southern Albania (then Ottoman Empire).
After attending primary school, he travelled to the Kingdom of Greece to study in a technical institute.
[1] He returned to Albania in 1916, during World War I. Muko learned by himself to play the violin and the mandolin and, in 1923, he started composing vaudevilles.
[2][1] Muko's best known song is Vajza e Valëve (English: Girl of the Waves), the poetical composition of which increased his reputation even more.
In the 1920s, he also composed songs for well-known singers of Albanian urban music such as Marie Kraja and Tefta Tashko-Koço.