Alemu Aga has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville, featured first on 26 April 2017. Songs played include Abatatchen Hoy (Pater Noster), The Sacred Names Of The Begenna and Selè Senè Fetrèt (De La Création).

Alemu Aga (b. 1950) is an Ethiopian musician and singer, a master of the bèguèna.

Born in Entotta, near Addis Ababa, Alemu became interested in the begena (a ten-stringed member of the lute family, also known as "King David's Harp") at the age of twelve, when a master of the instrument moved in next door to his family. The Aleqa Tessema Welde-Emmanuel (a…