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Meklit Hadero

If Joni Mitchell were East African and met Nina Simone for tea in San Francisco’s 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 Francisco’s 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…”, released on the San Francisco-based Porto Franco Records on April 20, 2010.

While Meklit’s music is like a sponge soaking up influences from all over the world, in some ways she’s the perfect embodiment of the City by the Bay

Six Degrees Records Signs Meklit Hadero to World-Wide Record Deal

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
October 14, 2013

Six Degrees Records is pleased and excited to announce the world-wide signing of singer/composer, TED Senior Fellow & cultural activist Meklit Hadero. Born in Ethiopia & based in San Francisco for the past nine years, Hadero became a sensation with the release of her debut On a Day Like This. A luminous album featuring original songs and some traditional Amharic music as well, it got rave reviews across the board. NPR called Hadero's sound, “a unique blend of jazz, Ethiopia, ...
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"The perfect triangle of influences comes together beautifully on this unforgettable debut...Hadero now emerges as a new and valued voice in a world of musical possibilities...It's a fine test of this vocalist's ability to express her emotions full-tilt, and she passes with honors." - Colorado Springs Independent

"...an honest songwriter creating music that is playful and dexterous, head bobbing and heart tugging." - Mindful Metropolis