News Center- Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, also known as Ethiopian “piano queen” has died at the age of 99. She was an Ethiopian nun, pianist and composer.

 After studying music in Italy and Cairo, she underwent a spiritual reassessment and became a nun, joining a monastery in Ethiopia. She took off her shoes and went barefoot for 10 years. Journalist and author Kate Molleson made a documentary about her for BBC Radio Four. She said that Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou should be included alongside more familiar names when considering great 20th  century composers.