Born and raised in Dessie, one of the biggest cities in the northern Amhara region of Ethiopia, she studied in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, at the Mekane Yesus School of Jazz Music. A few years later, she also started teaching there and built up the first modern vocal class in Ethiopia. During that time, she recorded her first album "Chanting Soul" with leading musicians of the jazz scene in Ethiopia. With her songs, she tears down existing barriers and builds new bridges, combines spiritual and secular music, blends traditional Ethiopian styles with jazz, reggae, soul, and R&B, and finally uses her voice as a mouthpiece for openness, spirituality, and progress in her own country. Currently, she is living and working in Berlin, Germany.