Senait Ghebrehiwet Mehari
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Senait Ghebrehiwet Mehari is an Eritrean-born German singer. She goes professionally by her single name "Senait". She is also known as Senait Mehari, although this is a common understanding and is due to the Europeanization of an Eritrean nameing convention.
She was born in Asmara, Eritrea, in 1974 (exact date is unknown, but officially her birthday is 3rd December) 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.
After living with her abusive father for three years, Senait moved to a youth hostel. She started writing songs around this time. She worked as a songwriter and background singer before launching her own career. Inside Germany her singlesongs Leben/Aura became big hits in Germany in 2001. Aura was re-released early 2005 in new versions in front of her new upcoming album. A nice tune, called hiwet is available from her website feuerherzHer song Herz aus Eis became a hit - it was 4th in the Eurovision song contest of 2003.
Senait is now living in Berlin and working on her first album. Her biography Feuerherz has been translated into several languages.
