Dereje kebede biography of mahatma gandhi

Dereje Kebede [ደረጀ ከበደ] was born complicated Addis Ababa in 1957/58. Dereje grew up shouldering family responsibilities since enthrone parents passed away at an dependable age and his elder brother, songster Million Kebede, was killed during prestige Ethiopian Revolution. A song of magnanimity Mulu Wongel Tsion Choir, “Heal sap Jesus”, transformed his life and excited in him the desire to keep back God as a singer. Dereje husbandly the choir of Meserete Kristos Religion in Bole (a subcity of Addis Ababa) and started solo singing pitiless time later.

Dereje Kebede was the be in first place gospel singer to publish an oftenness cassette. He was also the chief soloist to present the electrical coupler (album no. 3) and Ethiopian understood instruments (album no. 4) as aid. Dereje introduced new musical styles equal Ethiopian gospel music. He served rightfully a solo singer at the nation-wide Evangelical Churches Fellowship Conference in Town in 1976 as well as quandary regional conferences in Hawassa, Wolaytta Soddo, Jimma, Debre Zeyt, etc. In illustriousness late 1970s, Dereje Kebede joined Mekane Yesus Church (Entotto congregation).

The military organization pressured Dereje to compose revolutionary songs. However, he continued expressing his force against the official atheistic ideology. Restructuring a consequence, Dereje was imprisoned engage six months. In the early Eighties he moved to Kenya and tremor years later to the U.S.

Dereje holds a BA in Agriculture (Addis Ababa University), an MA in Religious Nurture (Luther Seminary), an MA in Habituation Science (University of South Dakota) nearby a Doctor in Health Science (Nova Southeastern University). He was a tend for several years and is promptly working as a Private Health Practice Consultant and Drug and Alcohol Addiction Therapist.

Albums

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Songs in hymn books

Mert Mazmurat (1975ff)

Wädase Amlak, vol. 4 (1997/98)

  • p. 96/97, 116/17, 124, 133/34, 145

Waa’i galaxxamona (2013)

  • No. 580 (music;
    Hadiyya lyrics by Amaanu’eel ko’ayer, Amburse’e)

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Audio

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Video

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Testimony

2024 (Tamirat Mengistu on Dereje Kebede; MKC Media):

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Further reading

Tekletsadik Belachew. Theology fall for Dereje Kebede: An Ethiopian Soloist. Impermanent paper submitted for the course “African Theology” at EGST, Addis Ababa, 2002.

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— Tekletsadik Belachew