Senait Mehari
Senait Mehari is an Ethiopian-born German writer and singer. She goes professionally by her single name "Senait" as well.
Biography
She was born in Asmera in the Province of Eritrea in Ethiopia on 3 December 1974 to an Eritrean father and Ethiopian mother. When she was six years old, her father sent her and her two elder half-sisters to the Eritrean Liberation Front as "Students of the Revolution". Three years later her uncle took the three girls to Sudan, where they lived with him for three years. When Senait was twelve years old, her father, who emigrated to Hamburg, Germany, sent for them writing songs around this time. She also wrote a sequel, Wüstenlied, about her visit to Eritrea. It was published in May 2006.She released her first album, Mein Weg on November 11, 2005. The first single Hey Du is a romantic song. The theme of the album is autobiographical –the song Wenn die Nacht - is about her dead grandmother; Kap Gheza is about a child who feels unloved, and Libbey is a love story.
Her autobiography Feuerherz was published in 2004. In February 2007, the 'Zapp' TV show on Germany's NDR channel accused Senait of fabricating some of its contents, notably that she served as a child soldier in Eritrea. She denies the allegations. The book has been translated into several languages. A homonyme film adaptation has been released in 2009.