History of Music in Eritrea

The country Eritrea is found in the Horn of Africa. Although the most popular Eritrean musicians in history are Eng. Asghedom W. Michael, Bereket Mengisteab, Yemane Baria, Osman Aderrehim, Alamin Abdeletif and Atowe Birhan Segid, where some of whose music were stopped by the government in the 1970s, also Bereket Mengistab, has had a length music pursuit, and 60s legends haile Ghebru and Tewolde Redda. Tewolde Redda was one of the first musicians to play the electric guitar in East Africa and a composer and writer of the popular “Allegedly” Eritrea’s independence song “Shigey Habuni”  with a love theme as coded message for the political freedom; whether the attribution of a lot of the lyre in that time was desire for the political freedom which was true or if it is just the wild fancy of a repressed people who zealously wanting expressing their deep secret political desire, were only eagerly extracting their deep secret of the political meaning from what has to be run-o- the mill in the universal love songs and the folk ballads).

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The Eritrean music has a special song that make it different from the whole of Africa, the recent famous stars in the country include Bereket Mengistab, Tekle Tesfa-Ezighe Tekele Kifle Mariam (Wedi Tokul), Tesfai Mehari (Fihira), Osman Abderehim, Abrar Osman, Abraham Afwerki, Yemane Ghebremichael, Idris Mohammed Ali, Alamin Abdeletif, Brerekhet Mengisteab, Atewebran Segid and Tsehaytu Beraki.