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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and pianist, dies at 99

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and pianist, dies at 99

The musician, who spent the last almost 40 years of her life living in a monastery in Jerusalem, has died

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99.

According to the country’s state-run news outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate, she died in Jerusalem. Guèbrou had been living at the Ethiopian Monastery there for almost 40 years.

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