Born in Ethiopia, raised in the US and nurtured for the last several years in San Francisco’s rich arts scene, Meklit Hadero’s musical explorations span genres and geographies. Hadero is a vocalist, songwriter, cultural activist, TEDGlobal Fellow, founder of the Arba Minch Collective, and Resident Artist at the Red Poppy Art House – an interdisciplinary arts and performance space in San Francisco. Hadero’s recent album, On a Day Like This, “combines jazz with West Coast folk and African flourishes, all bound together by Hadero’s beguiling voice, which is part sunshine and part cloudy day” (Nevin Martell, Filter Magazine).

One of Hadero’s many projects is to mobilize a group of Ethiopian Diaspora artists from across North America to return to Ethiopia for a traditional music festival. She aims to reintegrate the arts into a core place within our culture, championing their power to serve as a platform for dialogue across boundaries and borders.

http://www.meklithadero.com/
www.redpoppyarthouse.org
www.portofrancorecords.com 
www.arbaminchcollective.com. 
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"Soulful, tremulous and strangely cinematic, Hadero's voice will implant scenes in your mind — a softly lit supperclub, a Brooklyn stoop, a sun-baked road. Close your eyes, listen and dream." -Lynn Jacobson, Seattle Times