Aster Aweke (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ) is an Ethiopian singer who lives in the United States.
Born in 1961(though some sources cite the late fifties), this much-loved Ethiopian artist is musically adventerous. The daughter of a senior public servant, she was raised in Addis Ababa and began singing publicly as a teenager. In 1981, Aweke migrated to the United States and settled in Washington D.C. among a large Ethiopian expatriate community. Her popularity grew in the United States and remained strong at home.
|Discography
Ethiopian Groove - The Golden Seventies, Paris, 1994, Buda Musique (contains three of her very first recordings)|1989 Aster (Columbia/CBS Records)|1991 Kabu (Columbia/SME Records)|1993 Ebo (Barkhanns)|1997 Live in London (Barkhanns)|1999 Hagere (Kabu Records)|2002 Sugar (Kabu Records)|2004 Asters Ballads (Kabu Records)|2006 Fikir |
