Fiker Addis Nekatibeb

Singer, Fiker Addis Nekatibeb was born and raised in Gonder, in a place/town called Dembia Koladeba. She started her music career at a young age in Gonder employed in the military. At the time, her parents didn’t have the clear knowledge of the importance of a music career; their choice for their daughter was for her to pursue work just like the ordinary, to become a doctor or to get educated to turn into a better person.

As Life’s path is a mystery, Fiker Addis stayed firm in her music profession. Soon after, the famous musician Tesfaye Lemesa went to Gondar, and arranged Fiker Addis’s first album, which became a bestselling album of the time.

Fiker , in speaking about her successful profession as a dancer, gives the utmost gratitude to choreographer Ejigayehu Abdisa, for being the person who showed her the path to her singing profession.

Fiker got recognition for her amazing vocals and compositions. The famous singer has worked with different melody and lyric composers including artists such as Tsegaye Deboch, Abebe Birehane, Adugna Bogale, Sirak Tadese, Elias Melka, Habtamu Bogale. She has also worked with music arangers like Tesfaye Lemesa, Roha Band, Elias Melka and Abegaz Kibrework.

Fiker proudly speaks of the great respect and adoration she has for her country's great musician Aster Aweke. In addition to the numerous successful albums Fikire released as a single artist she has also worked on a single with singer Dereje Degefaw which focuses on HIV; one of the few songs which earned her adoration from the audience. Fikre Addis proclaims, music as her life, and the way she makes a living.