Ethiopia News News Ethiopia » Music: Sons of Ethiopia: A Snapshot of Admas and D.C. Music in the 1980s
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, ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Mulatu Astatke: Spreading ethio-jazz to the world
Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Ethiopia’s musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution ‑ how their culture lives on
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 ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Ethiopian Taxi Driver, Keyboardist Reinvents Music Career
One of the most popular keyboardists in Ethiopia is now working as a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Hailu Mergia performed with a famous band in Ethiopia. In 1981, he toured the United ...
News Ethiopia » Music: The father of Ethiopian jazz, Mulatu Astatke, remains a musician in motion
Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke took a break from his extensive 2018 European concert tour to play at the 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This should come as no surprise given that he ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Ph.D. student studies music and conflict in Ethiopia
Originally drawn to Ethiopia because of its historical uniqueness and non-western music, a Ph.D. student is now researching how music and conflict intersect in the country. Sarah Bishop, a Ph.D.
News Ethiopia » Music: Ethiopia: An Interview With Zena - London, Addis Ababa, and Everything in Between.
Zena is a London-born duo composed of Kokoroko keyboardist Yohan Kebede and bassist Menelik. Informed by their shared Ethiopian heritage, they mix traditional Ethiopian sounds with an eclectic range ...
News Ethiopia » Music: Ethiopia Habtemariam Named UMPG President, Urban Music
New appointment follows last month's promotion to Motown presidency. By Gail Mitchell Ethiopia Habtemariam has been promoted to president of urban music/co-head of creative at Universal Music ...