Ethiopian music is distinctive for its pentatonic scale. Ethiopian popular music from the 1960s and 1970s—with its blend of Ethiopian traditional music, jazz, and funk—has reached a mainstream ...

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 ...

What Hailu is too humble to let on is that he and his band, Walias Band, were one of the innovators of that revolutionary time in Ethiopian music along with Mulatu Astatke, who played with the ...

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 ...

Breakout star from The Voice – Israel AvevA Dese brings her soulful voice back to Israel after moving to Los Angeles.

Yet Ethiopian music was a revelation to her when she joined Boston’s Ethiojazz-rooted Debo Band around 2006. The East African style grabbed her because of “the really unique groove, ...

Dawit Yifru, a towering figure in Ethiopian music, has composed and arranged hundreds of songs over a career spanning decades. Revered for his skilful orchestration and poetic lyricism, he has helped ...

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 ...

T he June 29 murder of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, singer and activist, has triggered a popular uprising in Ethiopia. TIME columnist Ian Bremmer described the protests in a recent piece; since he wrote ...

Led by saxophonist-mastermind Danny Mekonnen, the 11-member Debo Band plays lush, orchestral interpretations of Ethiopian music. But they’re not just ticking off a musical tourism checklist, ...

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.

At least 81 people are dead in Ethiopia in massive protests that erupted after the killing of singer and activist Hachalu Hundessa, local police commissioner told state media.