The musician faced resistance when he premiered his sound in the 60s, but audiences have fallen in love with it since. At 82, he’s still finding new directions – and wants more recognition for Africa’ ...

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 ...

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

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 ...

His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu Astatke wants to turn the spotlight on the tribal musicians of his beloved ...

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