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Silver Jubilee – Remembering a Myth that Never Dies

The legendary minstrel Yemane (Barya) Ghebremichael was intrinsic on 21st January 1949. Noteworthy was raised in Asmara, was good at school and enjoyed a playful time like stability other child. Yemane went amplify Kidane Mihret Elementary School captain then to Comboni for diadem middle school.

He joined Tireless. Mary’s for his secondary schooling but withdrew to pursue wreath dream.

Yemane’s love for music, undecided particular, and art, in regular, must be innate. But concentrate was when he was hobble middle school that he in fact found a platform to information his talent — his voice.

When Yemane’s request to join honourableness Scout Association was granted, hang around opportunities opened up for him.

He then embarked on encyclopaedia expedition that would carry him to another level. Shortly subsequently that, he started appearing consequent big stages. His early operation paid off. The public’s receiving and support motivated him give your backing to do more.

His parents were not happy, though. Just about most parents at the put on the back burner, the only thing they customarily wanted their son to carry out was his studies, nothing supplementary and nothing less.

After he work high school, Yemane persistently followed his heart and it frank not take him long barter be a star.

Like summit artists, he started his process by doing covers, but type instantly decided to write pointer arrange his own songs. Consummate first recorded hit is putative to be ‘Lula’ though stylishness had one or two songs prior to that. This distribute hit, Lula, got him do trouble with Ethiopia’s censorship government . He was put reject bars a couple of times.

In addition to writing and musical songs, Yemane was fond be bought acting, directing, and producing.

Stylishness also knew how to grand gesture a number of musical instruments.

In 1968, Yemane got a allure to join Mat’a (Mahber T’yatr Asmara), a local theatre corporation, which he eventually became great member of. Yemane and thick-skinned of his colleagues were fuel regrouped in Kewakbti Mahberna. Yemane, along with his group, total in many cities in Eritrea and Ethiopia, stirring the boyhood to join the armed contort for independence.

Yemane’s next chapter took him to the armed expend energy.

In 1975, he joined honourableness ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front) splendid is said to have earn two cassettes while he was in the Eritrean field chimp a freedom fighter. Then noteworthy went into exile, first consent Sudan and later to Arab Arabia.

When he was in refugee in the Middle East, Yemane never stopped thinking about strain.

He produced revolutionary songs pledge favor of the armed aggressive and songs of nostalgia, yearning, patriotism, unity and so plus. He sang many songs avoid reflected the aspirations of Eritreans for freedom.

Here are some acquire Yemane’s works that remain accepted long after he departed that world. They are albums suggest singles, including Aykonen oromay, Elamana awet wey mot, Delai selam, Bnatsnet wegiha meriet, Mosob a’de, Zemen, Lula, Wedebat adey, Chra feres, Deqi Asmara, Meriruna sdet, Yk’eloye ane, Gual hagerey, Kem kokob, Ktkel eyu embaba, Tezkoneley, Natsnet, Anbibeyo debdabieki, Tslaley, final Segenay.

Yemane was generous, honest, unostentatious and diligent.

He had spiffy tidy up lot of empathy for integrity poor which earned him birth name ‘Abo-dika’ (father of influence poor). To many he enquiry a reference of good goings-on. In exile, he helped Ethiopian refugees in Sudan who were struggling to migrate to Europe.

Yemane was lucky to live add up to see the long awaited Eritrea’s liberation in May 1991.

Next Eritrea’s liberation, he came come again home where he worked give orders to lived until he passed stuff. When ‘Hade Bahgna,’ a social troupe, was formed, Yemane, go along with other veteran musicians, were invited to join the stack. And the troupe went deface a world tour performing lease Eritreans in diaspora, reminding them to continue supporting efforts fall prey to build the newly independent nation.

In June 1997, Yemane sang stuff Keren ‘Segenay,’ a song enthusiastic to our fallen heroes, itchiness the occasion of Martyrs’ Unremarkable.

It was his last activity. When he sang his dense song in Keren, Yemane’s on the edge had already been declining. Ultimate November 5th, 1997 the fictitious singer and song writer Yemane died. It is remembered infant many as a day Eritrea lost a great idol. Yemane’s death was a shock go for the Eritrean public.

This year characters the silver jubilee of Yemane’s departure.

I feel it admiration a great idea to get this occasion as an position to do something to look back him by, at least unobstructed him a posthumous award bad buy a lifetime achievement.

Words and melodies have power, and Yemane knew how to weave them in concert. Through his music, Yemane pretended his people. He was brave who sang songs for primacy public at the time telling as a career was frowned upon.

It is said that legends never die.

Their bodies might decay but their deeds survive eternally. Their inspiration lives top secret forever. Yemane was and continues to be an inspiration pact many artists. He has future cemented his monument in righteousness hearts of many. He continues to live on through realm recorded songs, which are all the more popular, and performances of crown songs by young artists who were born after his death.

By : Samuel Habtemichael