On 2 April 2019, Hailu Mergia was a guest on The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones. Hailu Mergia has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 100 episodes and was first played on 24 December 2013.

The acclaimed and highly sought-after LP by Hailu Mergia and the Walias, Tche Belew, an album of instrumentals released in 1977, is perhaps the most seminal recording released in the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. The story of the Walias band is a critical chapter in Ethiopian popular music, taking place during a period of music industry flux and political complexity in the country. Hailu Mergia,…