Asnaketch Worku ''Ethiopia's Edith Piaf'' from ethiopia holiday music Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 48 sec
✓ Published: 31-Jan-2015

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When I was about 4-years old kid in Addis-Ababa listening on my father's radio I heard a singer who mesmerized me. In an unknowing visceral response, Asnaketch Worku took root in my soul. Decades later it was an almost pre-destined privilege to direct a documentary on this extraordinary artist who is as much a cultural icon to Ethiopians as Billie Holiday is to Americans and Edith Piaf to the French. Asnaketch lived her life on the edge of her artistry, over the edge of her passions. But to sepa