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, ...

Debo quickly became an in-demand Boston band. Soon it was recording for Sub Pop Records and touring internationally. In 2009, it was selected to be part of the Ethiopian Music Festival in Addis Ababa.

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 ...

Her music had come to feel entirely self-evident to me. There wasn’t much I could ask of it that it hadn’t already answered. ♦ Published in the print edition of the April 17, 2023 , issue.

Her sound, rooted in the rhythms and tonalities of Ethiopian music, yet fluent in soul, pop, and groove, first captured national attention with her breakout on The Voice – Israel.

The Ethiopian budding music producer has been hanging with Barack and Michelle Obama’s eldest daughter, and also has a dad in politics. STORY Ameena Navab. Sep 18 , 2022.

In the resulting paper, I show how Oromo protest music like Hachalu’s reveals a history and geography of violence through land dispossession and political persecution.It is also more than just a ...

I once read the artist Dan Clowes describe Chopin’s Nocturnes as “like listening to ice water”. That description has often resonated with regards to the sound of a solo piano, but never more so than ...