Zemari muluken melese biography

Ethiopian singer and drummer (1954–2024)

Musical artist

Muluken Melesse (Amharic: ሙሉቀን መለሰ, 1954 – 9 April 2024) was an Ethiopian singer and drummer. He later abandoned his music career to involve himself in the Pentecostal Church.^[1]

Biography

Melesse was born in Gojjam, a province in northern Ethiopia now a Zonal Administration in the Amhara regional state.

When he was six, he moved to Addis Ababa with his uncle.

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In 1966, aged 12, he began his musical career singing at night clubs and in groups founded by night club owners, with his first song to be performed on stage, Enate Sitewoldgne Metchi Amakerchign.

His first song on vinyl was Hedetch Alu, which was recorded in 1972 by Girma Bèyènè (piano and arrangements), Tesfa Mariam Kidane (tenor sax), Tekle Adhanonm (guitar), Fekade Amde Meskel (bass), Tesfay Mekonnen (drums) and Melesse himself.

In 1975, he recorded his second song, "Wetetie Mare and Ete Endenesh Gedawo", with Equator B