Just one day before I blogged about Ethiopian keyboard player Hailu Mergia, the Washington Post coincidentally published an article about the same Mr. Hailu. A similar article emerged from the Washington City Paper.
Why from these newspapers of Washington, exactly ? For those who live around DC or those who've been there on vacation or for a business trip, you already know there is a big Ethiopian community in DC. More than that, most of the taxi drivers there are Ethiopians. And one of those cab drivers is precisely Hailu Mergia. Yes, the same guy who sees his vinyl album going for sale over $3000 on the web.
Nowadays, Hailu Mergia's life is far from music, but he still rocks the Yamaha DX7 with passion.
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