A00013 - Meklit Hadero
It is Christmas Eve and I am about to begin my Christmas tradition of watching Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth . However, before doing so, I wanted to note that there is much trouble in the world and one of the more troublesome places is Ethiopia. Those familiar with what is going on there cry out for the horror to stop ... but it does not. There is not much I can do to change what is. However, I will note that the Bay Area has a large Ethiopian community and sometimes, because of my height and skin coloration, even Ethiopians ask me if I am from Ethiopia. Well, I am not, but during my life I have had cultural connections to Ethiopia. One of the more recent cultural connections is through the Ethiopian born Meklit Hadero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meklit_Hadero You can learn more about her through this NPR interview https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125120472 and you can glimpse her talent through her channeling Nina Simone through this renditi