Eyasu Berhe
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Eyasu Berhe was an Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

n singer, writer, producer and poet, as well as a member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

Eyasu was born Mek'ele
Mek'ele
Mek'ele , also transliterated as Makale, is a city in northern Ethiopia and the capital of the Tigray Region. It is located some 650 kilometers north of the capital, Addis Ababa, at latitude and longitude with an elevation of 2084 meters above sea level...

, where he attended primary and secondary school. Eyasu obtained his MA degree from Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

 of the United Kingdom in Business Administration. He was studying for his PhD.

He inspired many young men and women to join the TPLF during the Ethiopian Civil War
Ethiopian Civil War
The Ethiopian Civil War began on September 12, 1974 when the Marxist Derg staged a coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie, and lasted until the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front , a coalition of rebel groups, overthrew the government in 1991. The war overlapped other Cold War...

. He has been one of the best Tigrigna
Tigrinya language
Tigrinya , also spelled Tigrigna, Tigrnia, Tigrina, Tigriña, less commonly Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigrinya people in central Eritrea , where it is one of the two main languages of Eritrea, and in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia , where it...

 music singers ever known. Eyasu has played significant role in mobilizing the public for the bitter struggle and later joined the cultural group established by the TPLF. Over 70 to 80 percent of the group’s songs, which conveyed political and social messages, were produced by the late Eyasu.

Eyasu died suddenly while performing onstage in Alamata
Alamata
Alamata is a town in northern Ethiopia. Located in the Debubawi zone of the Tigray region , it has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 1520 meters above sea level...

. In April 2010, the Tigray Development Association announced plans to construct a library in his honor in Mek'ele at a cost of 11 million Birr
Ethiopian birr
The birr is the unit of currency in Ethiopia. Before 1976, dollar was the official English translation of birr. Today, it is officially birr in English as well....

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