Ethiopian-Israeli musician Gili Yalo wonders if it was his destiny to become a singer. During a horrific famine in 1984, he and his family fled the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar, walking with a ...

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 ...

Let's compare two snapshots of recent Ethiopian history. The first is from 1968, when Emperor Haile Selassie I ruled over the proudest and most eccentric nation in Africa, with its Christian Coptic ...

Left: Ayalew Mesfin [Photo by Hannah Brooks]. Right: Hailu Mergia [Photo courtesy of the artist] For many people outside of the Habesha community, their first experience with Ethiopian music came from ...

Were the non-Ethiopian musicians at The Ex Festival chosen either because of existing connections to Ethiopia (e.g. Paal and Han) or because there’s something in their music that has a similar spirit?

The Ethiopian Herald has just exclusively interviewed Ethiopian Musicians Association President Dawit Yifru. It was at the age of 11 he embraced music as his calling. For the past 45 years joining ...

Aida Ashenafi is a pioneer in the evolution of the Ethiopian music video industry. This Ethiopian-born, American-raised and educated woman has played a leading role in the production of the two Johnny ...

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