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History
Her Childhood
Yewubdar Guebrou was born in Addis Abeba on December 12, to a privileged family. Her father Kentiba Guebrou and her mother Kassaye Yelemtu both had a place in high society.

Yewubdar was sent to Switzerland at the age of six along with her sister Senedu Guebrou. Both attended a girls' boarding school where Yewubdar studied the violin and then the piano.

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She gave her first violin recital at the age of ten.

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She returned to Ethiopia in to continue her studies at the Empress Menen Secondary School. In young Yewubdar and her family were taken prisoners of war by the Italians and deported to the island of Asinara, north of Sardinia, and later to Mercogliano near Naples.

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After the war Yewubdar resumed her musical studies in Cairo, under a Polish violinist named Alexander Kontorowicz.

Yewubdar returned to Ethiopia accompanied by Kontorowicz and she served as an administrative assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs