"Ambassel" made the Ethiopian tradition most apparent, with rumbling modal harmony and stately 6/8 time. Yet there was also a surprising amount of American influence in Yifrashewa's music.

You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its ...

The musician displays a lovely hybrid sound on his recent album Love & Peace.

An Ethio-Spanish classical music concert at the National Theater, with Silvia Sanz Torre conductor, and the Yared Music School Orchestra.

After working as a taxi cab driver in D.C. for years, attending Howard University to study music, and recording the beautiful afro-futuristic Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument in the mid ...

Ethiopian-born musician Hailu Mergia plays the piano at his home in Fort Washington. A generation ago, he was a major star on the Ethio­pian music scene. (Nikki Kahn/THE WASHINGTON POST) ...

Cloistered Ethiopian nun, 90, who has spent her life in a convent is revealed to be a musical genius after classical pianist stumbled across her scribbled scores ...

Mergia plays music from his 1985 reissued cassette, titled Mergia and his Classical Instrument, as he waits for customers at Dulles International Airport, located outside Washington.