Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...

Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...

The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent conflict that had a particularly heavy impact on musicians. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the ...

One of the most popular keyboardists in Ethiopia is now working as a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. In the 1970s, Hailu Mergia performed with a famous band in Ethiopia. In 1981, he toured the United ...

Denver’s City Park will host the 12th annual Taste of Ethiopia festival this weekend, a free two-day celebration of Ethiopian ...

Originally drawn to Ethiopia because of its historical uniqueness and non-western music, a Ph.D. student is now researching how music and conflict intersect in the country. Sarah Bishop, a Ph.D.

New appointment follows last month's promotion to Motown presidency. By Gail Mitchell Ethiopia Habtemariam has been promoted to president of urban music/co-head of creative at Universal Music ...