Meklit Hadero

**Meklit Hadero**, wacce aka fi sani da **Meklit**, mawaƙiya ce 'yar asalin ƙasar Habasha kuma mawaƙiya 'yar Amurka da ke zaune a San Francisco, California . An san ta da salon wasan kwaikwayo mai kyau, da kuma haɗa tasirin jazz, gargajiya, da na Gabashin Afirka a cikin waƙoƙinta. Tana rera waƙa da harshen Amharic, da Turanci. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haifi Meklit Hadero a babban birnin Habasha, Addis Ababa, ga mahaifin wani ƙabilar Kambata kuma uwa 'yar Amhara .  An rene ta a Amurka kuma ta yi karatun jami'ar Yale, inda ta yi karatun kimiyyar siyasa. 

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan kammala karatun, Meklit ta ƙaura zuwa San Francisco kuma ta shiga cikin fagen fasaha mai bunƙasa a birnin. "[Meklit] babbar jaruma ce a farkon matakai," in ji wani ɗan jarida daga *San Francisco Chronicle* bayan ya shaida wani wasan kwaikwayo na farko a Gundumar Mission ta birnin. "Tana rera waƙa game da rauni, bege da ƙarfafa kai, kuma tana bayyana dukkan ukun. Abin da ba za a iya musantawa ba, sama da duka, shine sautinta mai laushi, mai daɗi, da taushi. Tana da ban mamaki." 

An nada Meklit a matsayin mai fasaha a Jami'ar New York, Gidan  De Young, da Gidan Fasaha na Red Poppy . A halin yanzu Meklit abokiyar zama ce a Cibiyar Wildflowers, kuma ta kammala kwamitocin kiɗa na Gidauniyar San Francisco da kuma shirye-shiryen wasan kwaikwayo da Brava! For Women in the Arts ta shirya. Ita ce ta kafa Arba Minch Collective, ƙungiyar mawakan Habasha a ƙasashen waje da suka sadaukar da kansu don haɓaka alaƙa da ƙasarsu ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa da mawakan gargajiya da na zamani a can. A matsayinta na Babbar Jami'ar TED tun daga 2011, ta haɗu da kafa Aikin Nile tare da ƙwararren mawakan al'adu na Masar Mina Girgis kuma tun daga lokacin ta shiga cikin wuraren zama na mawaka guda biyu (Aswan, 2013 da Uganda a 2014) inda ta haɗa mawakan daga ƙasashe 11 a faɗin Kogin Nile.

Marubuciya/darakta Tamar Halpern ce ta zaɓi waƙoƙi biyu na Meklit Hadero saboda fim ɗinta Jeremy Fink da Ma'anar Rayuwa - "You and the Rain" da "Walk Up".

## Kundin Waƙoƙi
Meklit ta fitar da rikodin sauti guda biyar zuwa yanzu. Na farko wani shiri ne na EP mai waƙoƙi takwas da kanta mai suna *Eight Songs* (2008). Na biyu, cikakken LP ɗinta na farko,  *On a Day Like This...* wanda aka fitar a shekarar 2010, an yi rikodin shi a Closer Studios na San Francisco kuma Eric Moffat da Unsound Recording ne suka shirya shi. Mujallar *Filter* ta yaba da "haɗa jazz na New York da mutanen West Coast da kuma African flourishes, duk an haɗa su da muryar Hadero mai ruɗi."  Ya lashe labaran Meklit na NPR,  PBS,  da National Geographic.  San Francisco Chronicle ta kira ta "babbar jaruma mai fasaha da ke yin fim".

Jaridar *San Francisco Bay Guardian* (hoton murfin: http://www.sfbg.com/2014/03/18/rise-meklit-hadero ) ta rubuta: "abin da ke damun ka, abin da ke sa idanunka da kunnuwanka su rufe Meklit, abin da ke sa "La'ananne!" mara son kai ya fara girma a bayan bakinka shine muryarta: mai walƙiya, mai jan hankali, mai iya tsalle daga kyanwar jazz-cat zuwa tsuntsu mai waƙar zuma, tana nuna rauni da ƙarfi mai girma a cikin layi ɗaya."

Sharhin The Village Voice "Ita 'yar Joni ce mai muryar baƙi wacce take ɗaukar kiɗa a matsayin hanyar zuwa manyan wurare, tare da wuraren hutawa ga kamar Talking Heads da Lou Reed."

A cewar shafinta na Bandcamp, Meklit ta fitar da kundin wakokin *When the People Move, the Music Moves Too* a ranar 23 ga Janairun 2017.

* Muna Da Rai (18 ga Maris, 2014, Rikodin Digiri Shida)
* Meklit da Quinn - tare da Quinn DeVeaux (2012, Porto Franco Records)
* Earthbound - tare da 'yan wasan hip hop uku CopperWire (2012, Porto Franco Records)
* A Rana Irin Wannan... (2010, Rikodin Porto Franco)
* Waƙoƙi Takwas - EP (2008, wanda aka fitar da kansa)

## Manazarta