Meklit Hadero
Seattle, Washington, United States | INDIE
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Once you hear her smooth and silky voice it will be hard to forget it. Yet, years passed before she realized she wanted to become a singer. Ethiopian native Meklit hadero went to college to major in political science, but after moving to San Francisco she found her true love: music. Now, only five years after her first public performance, she is out with the new album "On a Day Like This".
Interview available online at NPR.org - NPR
Discography
On a Day Like This (Porto Franco, 2010)
Eight Songs, (2007)
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If Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in San
Franciscos Mission District, she might end up sounding like Meklit
Hadero. Meklit is a true modern global artist: born in Ethiopia, raised in US and nurtured for the last several years in San Franciscos richly diverse arts scene. Add in a warm and luminous singing voice and lyrical songwriting that moves from the starkly personal to the poetically metaphoric, and you have her entrancing debut full-length recording, On a Day Like This
, to be released by Porto Franco Records in April 2010.
While Meklits music is like a sponge soaking up influences from all over the world, in some ways shes the perfect embodiment of the City by the Bay cosmopolitan, striking and worldly, with an outlook that seems to change every few blocks or so. In fact, its tempting to tag Meklit-with her jazzy but expansive vibe, moods that veer from the hushed to the impassioned, and a female voice so lushly spellbinding it draws you into its world as San Franciscos answer to Norah Jones.
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