The late Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou was widely recognized as an Ethiopian nun known for her piano playing and compositions.
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou cause of death: How did Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou die?
Guèbrou seems to have died a natural death looking at her age, she died in Jerusalem on March 27, 2023, at the age of 99. No cause of death was found.
The composer had lived at a monastery in Jerusalem for much of the last 40 years. She was born Yewubdar Gebru in Addis Ababa, on 12 December 1923, to a wealthy Amhara family. At the age of six, she was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, where she studied violin.
In 1933 she returned to Ethiopia, where she was a civil servant and singer to Haile Selassie. During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, she and her family were prisoners of war and were sent by the Italians to the prison camp on the Italian island of Asinara and later to Mercogliano, near Naples.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
