ALEMTSEHAY WEDAJO

Artist Alemtsehay Wedajo is one the best and most known Ethiopian artists who is versatile enough to be a song-writer or lyricist, an actress, a journalist and an exceptional writer. She wrote the lyrics of more than 30 of the most loved and enjoyed contemporary Ethiopian songs by veteran Ethiopian singers such as Tilahun Gesesse, Muluken Melesse, and Mohamoud Ahmed. Alemtsehay also wrote columns for mainstream magazines and newspapers in Ethiopia for several years. And she acted in various television and theatre dramas as well as in some Ethiopian movies.

In the year 2000, she founded an organization by the name of Taitu Cultural Centre in Washington DC to train and work with aspiring Ethiopian artists. So far, Taitu Cultural Centre has produced and staged 17 theatres in America and Alemtsehay and her group are planning to tour Europe and other parts of the world to stage their works to Ethiopian audiences across the world.

Artist Alemtsehay’s contributions to the field of theater and acting is enormous and she indeed needs to be honored and praised.