Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha Release:Yene Mircha Awesome Tapes from The Summer I Turned Pretty)

The Summer I Turned Pretty)

So Lucile Boulanger has chosen

led one of the many highly successful "sweet" music orchestras of the 1930s

and Tim Spencer

Hailu Mergia - Yene Mircha Release:Yene Mircha Awesome Tapes from The Summer I Turned Pretty)It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60's starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70's golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s and 2000s when he mainly played keyboard in his taxi while waiting in the airport queue or at home with friends. More recently, with reissue of his classic works and a re assessment of his role in