Renowned Ethiopian singer Muluken Melesse died on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a long illness, according to his family. He was 73 years old. The vocalist rose to fame at a time of enormous ...

In 1997, Buda Musique, a French record label, launched “Éthiopiques,” a multivolume CD series that collected songs from Ethiopia’s golden age of pop music—an era that began in the late sixties and ...

Renowned Ethiopian musician Girma Yifrashewa's album entitled Love and Peace came in 23rd on the US billboard classical music charts following a concert at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...

The Burkina Faso rap musician, Louis Salif Kiekieta (a.k.a. Smarty) on Tuesday played in Ethiopia for the first time at the Alliance Ethio-Franҫaise. He played his rap music with his band, which uses ...

Ethiopia Habtemariam Executive VP/head of urban, Universal Music Publishing Group; senior VP, Motown Records umpg.com, motownrecords.com @habersmasher DOUBLE TRACK Ethiopia Habtemariam is one… By Gail ...

Singer-songwriter Berhana had a lot of influences to pull from for his debut album HAN, out now. Born as Amain Berhane in Atlanta to Ethiopian parents, the singer merged his interests and global ...

Senior research and teaching fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Music has played a key role in the Oromo resistance movement. As is the case in many other societies – especially ...

Fifteen first-graders encircled one of their classmates on a colorful rug in a Maryland classroom, trilling a children’s song in a language unfamiliar to most of them. Ro-za ro-zeenuh, ro-za shuko-ree ...

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