Tsedenia Gebremarkos was born in 1972 in
Addis Ababa. Tsedenia began her career after releasing her debut album
Bisetegn in 2004. The song "Neh Yelijinete" is header of the album, recounts her love story. She shared the
Kora Awards under the best East African female artist category in 2004 by her song "Ewedhalehu", with
Achien'g Abura (
Kenya) for her song "Toto Wangu". Tsedenia has worked with the
Ethiopian
dub band
Dub Colossus. They released an
EP,
A Town Called Addis in June 2008 through
Real World Records and a full length
LP album of the same name was released in August 2008 exclusively through the
Bowers & Wilkins Music Club. Tsedenia is influenced by variety musicians, including
Phil Collins and
The Beatles. She also cited
Whitney Houston as an early influence, where she used to sing all her tracks. In 2011, she released a song titled "Hememe". In 2015, she released "Yefikir Girma", leading to the most successful hit and viewed by users in
YouTube. The album of the same name was released in 2016. She was awarded one
AFRIMA Award for soundtrack of 2015 film
Hareyet, with the song "Yet Biye". Her upcoming album is to be set with writing is belonged to Yilma Gebreab where Getnet Enyew Adibuara and Fasil Kebede credited as assistant songwriters. ==Personal life==