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Hiwot Selam Fikadu
Tabla player and teacher in Adama
- 🇪🇹 Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia
- Adama Music School
- 1993 to 2023
- English, Amharic
I play tabla and brass band. I started in 1993 with a secondhand instrument and a lot of stubbornness.
I teach about 13 students a week. Some of them are better than me now, which is the whole point. I bake for the whole street at New Year.
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I wrote my first song when I was 16. It was terrible and I still love it.
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What gifts mean to Hiwot: Any gift will help me keep teaching kids who can't afford lessons.
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- Brian N. BarkerFormer student🇨🇦
I still have the recording from that night at Adama Music School. Greetings from Halifax.
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