Meklit Hadero

"[4] Named a TED Global Fellow in 2009,[5] Meklit has served as an artist-in-residence at New York University, the De Young Museum, and the Red Poppy Art House.

Hailed by Filter magazine for "[combining] New York jazz with West Coast folk and African flourishes, all bound together by Hadero's beguiling voice.".

The San Francisco Bay Guardian (cover photo: http://www.sfbg.com/2014/03/18/rise-meklit-hadero) writes: "what sucks you in, what keeps your eyes and ears locked on Meklit, what makes an unselfconscious "Damn!"

start to grow at the back of your mouth is her voice: lilting, sensuous, capable of the leap from staccato jazz-cat to honeyed songbird, she conveys both fragility and great strength in a single line."

The Village Voice comments : "She's a blithe-voiced daughter of Joni who considers music a path to higher ground, with rest stops for the likes of Talking Heads and Lou Reed."