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Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru

Prior to adopting her monastic name and title, Emahoy was born Yewubdar Gebru, on December 12, 1923, in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia

This past spring, I purchased Emahoy’s only full album of original songs, Souvenirs, from the gift shop at the Church of Kidane Mehret

I have expressed previously my skepticism toward this “othering” of Emahoy and her music, as always adjacent to something familiar