The golden age of Ethiopian soul music kicked off in the mid '60s with a flurry of horns, eerie keyboards, and whip-crack drumming. Woven through the groove was the strained, conflicted voice of ...

Ethiopia enjoys a rich tradition of enticing music, filled with asymmetric rhythms set to a haunting, five-note scale and sly double-entendre lyrics in the Amharic language. It's a shame that, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the band QWANQWA takes the stage of the BU Global Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, it’ll be making its Boston debut — as are five of the other groups playing the free event. But if the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With headlines increasingly dominated by disheartening stories about asylum seekers, Multicultural Arts Victoria's annual Emerge ...

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 ...

Ethiopia Habtemariam?Executive VP/Head Of Urban Music, Universal Music Publishing Group; SeniorVP, Motown Records?UMusicPub.com, Motown.com?@habersmasher? ? DUAL ROLE, SINGLE FOCUS? In… By Gail ...

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And It Demands Our Compassion. My New Year’s celebration this year was perhaps the most unusual yet deeply meaningful one I have ever experien ...