Aster Aweke [ʔəsɨteɾɨ ʔəwək'ə] (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ; born 1959)[1] is an Ethiopian singer-songwriter.

[4] She moved to Addis Ababa as a child with her father, who was senior civil servant in the imperial government of Haile Selassie.

[6] In a 1990 interview with Amy Duncan of The Christian Science Monitor, Aster told of the opposition of her music ambition from her parents: "My family opposed me, but i just kept going and going....That's my life.

She temporarily settled in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and then within two years moved to Washington, D.C. She briefly attended Northern Virginia Community College, specializing in computer science, as well as learning formal musical education, which she took a distaste towards.

[13] In 1997, after more than 15 years abroad, Aster returned to Ethiopia, where she was warmly welcomed by thousands of fans awaiting her at Addis Ababa airport.