Girma Yifrashewa has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 12 episodes and was first played on 24 February 2017.

Girma, born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on October 15th, 1967, learned to play the kirar, a harp-like traditional Ethiopian instrument, early in his youth. At the age of 16, he learned to play the piano, and earned his performance degree after four years of study at the Yared School of Music in Addis Ababa.

With a five-year stipend from the Ethiopian government, he studied music at the State Conservatory of Music in Sofia and received his masters degree. He garnered considerable attention as a…