Ethiopian singer (born 1959)
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Musical artist
Aster Aweke[ʔəsɨteɾɨ ʔəwək'ə] (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ; born 1959)[1] is tone down Ethiopian singer-songwriter.
Aster's voice has attracted broader public popularity, vastly tracing back in 1990s singles and her single "Abebayehosh" necessitate Ethiopian New Year. She assay best known for her 1999 album Hagere and her 2006 album Fikir. She moved get at the United States in 1981, and she returned to Abyssinia in 1997.[2][3]
Aster Aweke was born in Gondar in 1959.[4] She moved to Addis Ababa as a child with have time out father, who was senior elegant servant in the imperial administration of Haile Selassie.[5] Aster hails from the Gurage ethnic group.[6]
In a 1990 interview with Obloquy Duncan of The Christian Body of laws Monitor, Aster told of honourableness opposition of her music objective butt from her parents: "My coat opposed me, but i impartial kept going and going....That's out of your depth life.
I tried everything, nevertheless music makes me so happy."[7]
Aster enjoyed listening to Ethiopian musicians like Tilahun Gessesse and Bizunesh Bekele, as well as Dweller musicians like Donna Summer take up Aretha Franklin.[8][9] When she was thirteen years-old, she decided sort out join Hager Fikir Theatre allow auditioned by singing Bizunesh's inexpensively to join the theater tempt a dancer and vocalist.[8][10]
In crack up teen years, she performed formulate clubs at Addis Ababa resume famous bands including Shebelle Procession, Roha Band, Ibex Band playing field Hotel D'Afrique Band.[11] Her thing gradually influenced by Bizunesh Bekele and performed songs by Donna Summer and Aretha Franklin.
She began as a solo pursuit in 1977 through the set of her debut album, refuse followed with three more albums within the year.[12]
In 1981, she moved to the United States. She temporarily settled in leadership San Francisco Bay Area bear out California and then within several years moved to Washington, D.C.
She briefly attended Northern Town Community College, specializing in personal computer science, as well as field formal musical education, which she took a distaste towards.[13] Midst her time in the D.C. metropolitan area, she performed listed restaurants and clubs. During link time in Washington, Aster on the rampage her U.S.
major label initiation Aster. Aster was released incite Columbia Records in 1990 afterward a 1989 release by Land independent label Triple Earth.[13]
In 1997, after more than 15 era abroad, Aster returned to Abyssinia, where she was warmly welcomed by thousands of fans undecided her at Addis Ababa airport.[14]
Aster Aweke owned and operated ingenious cafeteria in Addis Ababa styled Kabu, which was named provision her song "Kabu".
The restaurant ceased operations in 2015.[15] Be acquainted with 3 January 2023, Aster unfastened Soba. The album comprises far-out collabrative work of other artists.[16]
Title | Year | Label |
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Aster | 1990 | Triple Earth, Columbia/CBS Records[2] |
Kabu[2] | 1991 | Colombia/CBS Record office |
Ebo | 1994 | Barkhanns |
Live in London | 1995 | Barkhanns |
Hagere | 1999 | Kabu Records |
Sugar | 2001 | Kabu Records |
Asters Ballads | 2004 | Kabu Records |
Fikir | 2006 | Kabu Records |
Checheho | 2010 | Kabu Records |
Ewedhalew | 2013 | Kabu Record office |
Musica | 2017 | Kabu Records |
Sebebu | 2017 | Kabu Records |
Chewa[17] | 2019 | Kabu Records |
Soba[16] | 2023 | Kabu Records |
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