In the latest installment of our "In Your Ear" series — where we ask guests about the music that's at the top of their personal play lists — we speak with Meklit Hadero. She's an Ethiopian singer and ...

Ethiopian-born musician Meklit Hadero has been blending the music of Ethiopia, her birth country, with the jazz of the US, where she lives now. And now she's stepping it up-- not only does she have a ...

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but impending motherhood can offer its own potent inspiration. For Meklit, the imminent arrival of her son León in the summer of 2019 fueled the songwriting ...

You may recognize Meklit Hadero’s name from her stint at the Ringling International Arts Festival three years ago; the singer made waves here for her jazz-tinged songs heavily influenced by her ...

Meklit, the Ethiopian-born San Francisco musician and cultural activist, has spent the last decade gathering disparate artists together to illuminate the themes and forces that unite them. Related ...

As a co-founder of the Nile Project, which brings together musicians from across the vast Nile River region, Meklit can speak at length about the many ways the experience has filtered into her music.

I can’t listen to Meklit without hearing her smile. Part of this, surely, is having met the singer in person and knowing she does in fact have a radiant smile, but it’s also in her music: a deep, self ...

As we move from one place to another, we carry with us not just our belongings, but also our cultures, backgrounds and heritages. On Thursday, Ethiopian American singer, songwriter and composer Meklit ...

Back in the day, when finding music meant rummaging through record bins, one would have been hard pressed to know which bin to put Meklit Hadero into. Folk, pop, world music, singer-songwriter? Most ...

Meklit Hadero left Ethiopia when she was just a toddler, but the country's musical traditions made a big impression on her. Hadero, who lives in San Francisco, has weaved traditional Ethiopian sounds ...