COVER: Melody mediator
Ith a voice as fresh as the flower that’s always tucked into her hair, Meklit Hadero mixes genres and styles, as comfortable with Ethiopian jazz as San Francisco coffeehouse folk. Always active, she’s releasing two albums this year, is a TED senior fellow (a title bestowed upon “young world-changers” in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design) and has put together the Arba Minch arts collective, a group that aims... Meklit Hadero: Pretty much how you just described it. That’s pretty accurate. With the Nile Project, Meklit wishes, through music, to draw together the countries, cultures and communities that lie on the famed African river. In advance of her second appearance in Montreal, Meklit spoke to the Mirror about music, community and her love for our city. Mirror: You have East African influences, but your music is also jazzy and folky.
Montreal Mirror on 01.01.70 | File Under Flower Show | Comments
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