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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (Gəʿəz ጽጌ ማርያም ገብሩ; born Yewubdar Gebru, 12 December 1923 – 26 March 2023) was an Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun.[1] She is generally known as Emahoy, a religious honorific.[2] Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam was born as Yewubdar Gebru in Addis Ababa, on 12 December 1923, to a wealthy Amhara family. Her given name Yewubdar means the most beautiful one in Amharic. Her mother was named Kassaye Yelemtu.[3] Her father, Kentiba Gebru Desta, was a diplomat and the mayor of Gondar, a city in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.[3] In 1929, she was sent with her sister, Senedu Gebru,[3] to a boarding school in Basel, Switzerland, where she studied both piano and the violin. At the time, they were the first Ethiopian girls to receive education overseas.[4] In 1933, Emahoy returned to Ethiopia, attending Empress Menen Secondary School.[3][5][6] During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1937), Emahoy and her family were prisoners of war. They were sent by the Italians to a pri

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