Hailu Mergia - Yene MirchaIt's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60's starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70's golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s and 2000s when he mainly played keyboard in his taxi while waiting in the airport queue or at home with friends. More recently, with reissue of his classic works and a re assessment of his role in

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In the process of writing songs and themes for dozens of movies

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which became his theme song in later years as he focused on bayou music after his primary country career was over

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with hot guitar and lowdown harp backed by Kenny's steaming road band

musical talents

the long-dreamt desire of this great Italian harmonica player to celebrate today's best blues voices in Texas has been fulfilled

Under the artistic direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas

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