Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou | ms

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (born Yewubdar Gebru , Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 12, 1923) is an Ethiopian pianist and composer. Young Yewubdar secretly fled Addis Abeba at the age of 19 to enter the Guishen Mariam monastery in the Wello region, she had once before visited with her mother. She served two years in the monastery and was ordained a nun at the age of 21. She took on the title Emahoy and her name was changed to Tsege Mariam. Her father Kentiba Gebru and her mother Kassaye Yelemtu both had a place in high society. Yewubdar was sent to Switzerland...