Eritrean songs tekle tesfazghi biography
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Selam Seyoum Woldemariam, also known as "Selamino", is an African musician who has turned out (mostly locally produced) albums in his more than forty years as a professional musician. He has been called &#;The Jimi Hendrix of Ethiopia&#; and is a national legend.
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Early life
Selam Seyoum Woldemariam was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, in to a director-teacher father, Seyoum Woldemariam Kidane, and an assistant teacher-housewife mother, Tsirha Nemariam.
The family moved to Asmara, Eritrea, in and stayed there throughout his childhood (c. &#;). While in Addis Ababa, his father worked in a school run by American missionaries. They brought various records of spiritual songs; Woldemariam and his siblings studied some of the songs and sang them at the Mekane Yesus Church in Addis Ababa. The family owned an acoustic guitar, and while each of his siblings tried to learn, he was the most disciplined in his musical study.
During the mids, Woldemariam formed a church music quintet choir group in Asmara at "Geza Kenisha", which became popular and pulled hundreds of followers to
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R E U P L O A D
Eritrea is an East African country in the Horn of Africa region. Perhaps the most famous Eritrean musicians in history are Eng. Asghedom W. Micheal, Bereket Mengisteab, Yemane Baria, Osman Abderrehim, Alamin Abdeletif & Atowe Birhan Segid, some of whose music were banned by the Ethiopian government in the s. Also of note is Bereket Mengistab, who has had a lengthy career, and 60s legends Haile Ghebru and Tewolde Redda. The latter was one of the first electric guitar players in East Africa, and a singer and writer of the famous 'allegedly' Eritrea's independence song "Shigey habuni" with love theme as coded message for political freedom .
Eritrean music has a unique rhythm that sets it apart from the rest of Africa. Modern popular stars include Bereket Mengistab,Teklé Tesfa-Ezighe Tekele Kifle Mariam (Wedi Tukul), Tesfai Mehari (Fihira), Osman Abderrehim, Abrar Osman, Abraham Afwerki, Yemane Ghebremichael, Idris Mohamed Ali, Alamin Abdeletif, Tsehaytu Beraki, Atewebrhan Segid and Berekhet Mengisteab.
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Selam Seyoum Woldemariam, framer and adherent of description legendary Roha Band soar guitar supremo, talks volume his education, history spreadsheet the for to rediscover the voodoo of moderately good music. Experts follow:
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