Ethiopian artists reveal secret behind outshining on K-Pop World Festival

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian Winners of 2023 Korean Pop World Festival disclosed that knowing and utilizing their talent was the reason behind their achievement.

The Embassy of Republic of Korea in Ethiopia on Wednesday has held an award ceremony for K-Pop World Festival winners of the first round online preliminary competition.

The artists urged the young generation to identify talent to reach new heights in their artistic journey.

Approached by The Ethiopian Herald, the winners revealed that anyone who has talent of music, dance or any other field should identify his/her talent to achieve ambition and improve life.

Musician Betelhem Sewaynes who is one of the winners of the music festival said that youths have many chances thus they should identify their area of specialty and interest to succeed in the field of their passion.

“I compete on vocal music via online platform and the competition has taught me a lot of things in the field where I wish to be the best musician,” she said.

She advised the youth to improve its life by identifying and utilizing its talent properly.

She revealed that she was excited when the embassy announced her that she is among the winners of the festival who compete in the first round.

Expressing her anticipation of the next move, she said, “I expect that they will send us to Korea then get chance of training after the second round competition.”

Nejat Abdella is another Ethiopian who competed in dance and received award from the embassy.

She said that she watched the competition music released video on social media on the eleventh hours but decided to be part of the contest and fortunately, she made to the second round.

“We compete based on choice of our own music interest and we performed better and then the embassy selected us a winner,” Nejat recalled.

She expressed that dancing is her passion. “I would like to continue in this genre conducting my training, compete and develop my talent competing in such music festivals,” she said.

Three Ethiopians have been qualified, awarded certification of recognition and other prizes after competed with around 22 teams in the first round of the 2023 K-pop World Festival, an annual music festival organized by South Korea.

BY MISGANAW ASNAKE

THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2023

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