Senait Ghebrehiwet Mehari is an Eritrean-born German singer. She goes professionally by her single name "Senait". She is also known as Senait Mehari, although this is a common understanding and is due to the Europeanization of an Eritrean nameing convention. She was born in Asmara, Eritrea, on the 3rd December 1974 (exact year is unknown, it may be some years earier or later) to an Eritrean father and Ethiopian mother. When she was six years old, her father sent her and her two elder half-sisters to the Eritrean Liberation Front as "Students of the Revolution". Three years later her uncle took the three girls to Sudan where they lived with him for three years. When Senait was twelve years old, her father, who emigrated to Hamburg, Germany, sent for them. After living with her abusive father for three years, Senait moved to a youth hostel. She started writing songs around this time. She worked as a songwriter and background singer before launching

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