Meklit Hadero. (Photo: Video still TED Talk 2015)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2015
New York (TADIAS) — In the following video TED Senior Fellow Meklit Hadero speaks about how everyday sounds (nature, language and silence) inspire her creativity. “As a singer/songwriter people often ask me about my influences or as I call them my sonic lineages,” says the Ethiopian American artist. “And I could easily tell you that I was shaped with the Jazz and Hip-Hop that I grew up with, by the Ethiopian heritage of my ancestors, or by the 1980s pop on my childhood radio stations, but there is another genre. How do the sounds that we hear everyday influence the music that we make?”
“The world is alive with musical expression,” she says as she explores popular Amharic interjections. “We are already immersed.”
Watch: Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds | TED Talk
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