The Reporter: “Ethiopian Music Has Everything it Needs to Reach a Global Audience”
Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his blend of musical ...
OC Weekly: Two Ethiopian Music Legends Bring Ethiopian Jazz and Funk to Los Angeles
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 ...
Two Ethiopian Music Legends Bring Ethiopian Jazz and Funk to Los Angeles
Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...
The music artist Meklit Hadero has lived in the U.S. since she left Ethiopia decades ago. (SOUNDBITE OF MEKLIT HADERO SONG, "LEFEQER ENEGEZA") MEKLIT HADERO: After the Ethiopian Revolution, there were ...
The Conversation: The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué‑Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who’s died at 99
As the Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou approached the age of 100, fans and music critics from the US to Ethiopia, Israel to Europe have been eagerly rediscovering her work. But the ...
The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué‑Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who’s died at 99
The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent conflict that had a particularly heavy impact on musicians. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the ...