Tebèreh Tèsfa-Hunègn

With her sweet, uplifting, vocals, Tebereh “Doris Day” Tesfa-Hunegn, became among the leaders of Ethiopia’s pop music scene from the ’70s. Politics turmoil in her homeland plagued her throughout her brief musical career. Documenting for maker Amha Eshete’s Amha Information label, Tesfa-Hunegn helped Eshete defy an edict putting all documenting in Ethiopia under authorities control. The problem escalated following a armed service dictatorship, the Deng, required control of Ethiopia within the middle-’70s. While Eshete is at New York looking for monetary support for his label in 1975, Tesfa-Hunegn and Eshete’s dad were caught and jailed. Because the liberation of Eritrea in 1992, Tesfa-Hunegn’s homeland north of contemporary Ethiopia, she’s owned and managed a pub in the administrative centre town of Asmara.