Archive: Soulful Singer in a Transmedia World with Meklit Hadero

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Channel: UW Video · 2013 · Education

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She was born in Ethiopia. She went to college at Yale. She has lived everywhere from New York to Florida and even Iowa. Now her newest hometown, San Francisco paper describes her as "an artistic giant in the early stages." Is it any surprise that musician Meklit Hadero describes her music as something that comes from "in between spaces?" Yet she is looking to fill those spaces through cross-cultural conversations in countries that border the Nile River...And in collaboration with Seattle based artists to "create an album like a video game." From technology to "TED"—we find out how this amazing musician attempts to expand our horizons while remaining true to her roots.
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