Meklit Hadero Biography

Meklit Hadero's music is imbued with poetry and multiplicity from hybridized sounds of Tizita drawing from her Ethiopian heritage to the annals of jazz folk songs hip-hop and art rock. She aptly describes her music as emanating from in-between-spaces. Her songs celebrate the newness of life and the hyphens that bring us together. Meklit has released five studio albums - including 2014's We Are Alive and 2010's On A Day Like This - and is currently signed to Six Degrees Records. Meklit was lead artist for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts In-Community program Home [Away From] Home. and in 2011 she co-founded the Nile Project with Egyptian Ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis. Meklit is the founder of the Arba Minch Collective former Co-Director of the Red Poppy Art House and has received performance grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development. Meklit is currently working on a body of music steeped in Ethio-Jazz thanks to a grant from the prestigious MAP Fund. She holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University and sits on the board of YBCA.

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