He provided entertainment for the Ethiopian troops of the Agnew Battalion serving in the Korean War.[3] He received awards from Emperor Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Fine Art and Mass Media Prize Trust.[3] He was most widely known for his children's television program on the Ethiopian national broadcaster EBC, where he coined the catchphrase, "Lijoch Yezare Abebawoch Yenege Freywoch" (roughly translated as "Children!