At the age of sixteen, he moved to Khartoum to attend the Khartoum Commercial Secondary School, where he studied Sudanese folk music and Arabic poetry. Further, his musical interest evolved to the oud (Arabic lute) and shetern (small drum), which he learned by himself.
At the age of sixteen, he went to Khartoum to study Sudanese folk music and Arabic poetry at school, and subsequently, he became interested in other traditional Sudanese instruments like the oud and shetern that he learned by himself.