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- <text id=90TT2858>
- <title>
- Oct. 29, 1990: Binary Ballad
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Binary Ballad
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- <body>
- <p>By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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