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- PEOPLE, Page 73Binary Ballad
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- By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- When ASTER AWEKE first arrived in America, she studied
- computers because her family "wanted me to be educated."
- Ethiopia's No. 1 pop vocalist, she missed singing so much that
- after only six months, it was bye-bye bytes. Though she
- performs only in her native Amharic, her new album of
- impassioned tunes is catching on. Aweke, 31, who has been
- living outside Washington for the past eight years, "wouldn't
- have been disappointed about not selling records here." She
- never expected to have a U.S. following because she thought
- "nobody would understand me." Music is one language that needs
- no translation.
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