"Israelis didn't listen to Amharic music before this," says Cabra Casay, 22, one of the Ethiopian Israeli singers touring with the Idan Raichel Project.

Amharic music, which originates in Ethiopia, has been banned in Eritrea. There has been no official announcement of the ban but the owners of bars and music shops say they have been told not to play ...

While "The Hills" is the first track Tesfaye has performed partly in Amharic, it isn’t the first song to feature heavy notes of his Ethiopian background. In February 2012, the Weeknd released a ...

Ethiopian gospel music is often sung in Amharic. But because the Amharic alphabet is so different from the ones the Western world is used to, the language became a copypasta.

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An investigation found that the instruction for two Metro supervisors to speak their native language, Amharic, only in private was "hostile and discriminatory." ...

After serving as musical director of the Israeli Defense Forces Band, Raichel taught music at school for Ethiopian immigrants. Many young olim sought to leave behind folkways to assimilate into ...

Prominent Amharic singer Yehune Belay released a popular Amharic song in which he pleaded with Ethiopian soldiers to stop killing people. Large numbers of YouTube channels and Facebook pages have ...

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A lone dancer weaves arabesque shapes with the red tip of his cigarette to the rhythm of loud Amharic music in a dark closeted bar in Ethiopia's capital - oblivious to a recent ban on smoking in ...