Hailu Mergia Archives | Spellbinding Music

Born in Ethiopia and based in Washington since the early 1980s, Hailu Mergia is a legendary keyboard player who was a key member of the extraordinary golden era of Ethio-Jazz that first graced the African music scene between the late 1960s and 1970s. Tche Belew, his seminal record as a leader with the Walias Band in 1977 is …