The classically trained musician was associated with the jazz genre and spent her life in a convent. She will remain in death as much as in life a figure of beautiful contradictions. Her legacy as a ...

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Hachalu Hundessa’s songs gave a soundtrack to the Oromo resistance. Screengrab/Maalan Jira!/YouTube Music has played a key role in the Oromo resistance movement. As is the case in many other societies ...

Ethio-jazz was the thrilling sound of 1960s and ’70s Ethiopia, blending traditional music with funk and soul before a dictatorship killed off the genre. Now, it's making a comeback. Ethiopia’s jazzmen ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With the sound of nostalgic and soulful Ethiopian dance music, Tezeta Band will be rocking the stage at The Waterfront Blues Festival this Fourth of July holiday weekend. “The ...

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 songs I grew up with’: Tezeta Band brings old school Ethiopian dance music to Waterfront Blues Fest GOP lawmaker pronounces Trump agenda 'dead' following Russia sanctions reversal Libya resumes ...