Dawit Cherent - Singer and Song Writer - Interview With Loline Mag
For as long as he remembers he’s had a particular liking for music, imitating his favorite artists from VHS cassettes and CDs.
The eldest son of 5 siblings, Dawit Cherent was born and raised in Addis Ababa. The singer and songwriter grew up in a very musical household. For as long as he remembers he’s had a particular liking for music, imitating his favorite artists from VHS cassettes and CDs. His biggest influences include Bon Iver, Needtobreathe, and Dermot Kennedy.
After three years of university majoring in economics in commerce, he is now a fourth-year guitar major in seminary music school. He got his first guitar after his eighth-grade school reports and started writing songs after teaching himself how to play the guitar. The songs he writes are inspired by genuine emotions be it sadness, be it hope, or anything true he feels that we take for granted. More so, they are inspired by life lessons he was taught as a young kid by his parents or by the community that raised him. He states that the ups and the downs we go through in life are what makeup who we are and that we should acknowledge them; in his words “if not tried by fire, gold will not be refined”.