Can an artist be at the same time a singer, a writer and a storyteller? In my country, Ethiopia, people narrate by singing, writings and telling stories. In the 2016 I had an album realised by Arc Music Records "Ethiopia, celebrating Emperor Tewodros II", one song (Atse Tewodros) chosen for the "Rough Guide of the best world music you ever heard", another song (Be kibir) for the "Rough guide of Ethiopian Jazz, and at the same time the Washington Post suggests with a long article my novel "Queen of flowers and pearls" as "The novel that illuminates life (and resistence) under repression in Ethiopia", https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/08/05/heres-the-novel-yes-fiction-to-read-to-better-understand-ethiopia/?postshare=5351470424696308&tid=ss_fb
She is working at the same time on her next novel and a new musical project on unkown Ethiopian ethnic music.
And she will be in Womex in Santiago this October!
article posted by:Gabriella Ghermandi, Andlay - Atse Tewodros Project