On 2 April 2019, Hailu Mergia was a guest on The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones. Hailu Mergia has been played on NTS over 120 times, featured on 117 episodes and was first played on 24 December 2013.

Hailu Mergia is an Ethiopian keyboardist, accordionist, composer, and arranger based in Washington, D.C., United States. He is best known for his work with the Walias Band during the 1970s, a group regarded as one of the most influential in Ethiopia’s musical golden age.