Ethiopian housemaid trades broom for song stardom in Iraq

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Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:28:44 AM GMT Sunday, November 07, 2010 3:25:06 AM GMT

Ethiopian housemaid Mahlet is changing her name to Maha and cutting her first video clip after proving to her Iraqi boss that she can sing better than she can clean.

Three years after she left her native Ethiopia to work as as a housemaid for prominent Kurdish musician Halcout Zahir, the 20-year-old woman is almost a household name in the northern autonomous region of Kurdistan.

Her break came when Iraq...

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