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Aster Aweke (Amharic: አስቴር አወቀ; born 1959) [1] is an Ethiopian singer-songwriter. Aster's voice has attracted broader public popularity, especially tracing back in 1990s singles and her single "Abebayehosh" in Ethiopian New Year. She is best known for her 1999 album Hagere and her 2006 album Fikir.
Endegna (Amharic: እንደኛ), previously known as Yegna (Amharic: የኛ), is an Ethiopian five-piece girl group, originated in Addis Ababa. The group gained prominence after releasing two singles, "Abet" (2013) and "Taitu" (2014). Their earlier lyrical contents reference female empowerment and opposition towards violence against women.
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam was born as Yewubdar Guèbrou in Addis Ababa, on 12 December 1923, to a wealthy Amhara family. Her given name Yewubdar means the most beautiful one in Amharic. Her father, named Kentiba Gebru Desta, was a diplomat and the mayor of the historical city of Gondar. Her mother, Kassaye Yelemtu, was equally a woman of affluent ...
Ossie was a drummer who believed that black people needed to develop their own style of music; [253] he was heavily influenced by Burru, an Afro-Jamaican drumming style. [254] Ossie subsequently popularised this new Rastafari ritual music by playing at various groundings and groundations around Jamaica, [ 254 ] with songs like "Another Moses ...
Released: May 1, 1985. We Are the World is a 1985 album that contains USA for Africa 's "We Are the World", a superstar charity recording for famine relief efforts in Ethiopia. The album was released on April 1, 1985, [1][2][3] by Columbia Records. In addition to the title track, the album includes nine previously unreleased songs by donating ...
Producer (s) David Foster. Jim Vallance (co-producer) " Tears Are Not Enough " is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was one of a number of such supergroup singles recorded between December 1984 and April 1985 ...
Hajipour himself was later arrested by the Iranian government over his song. For Women Life Freedom — a 501c3 non-profit committed to advocating for women’s equal rights as well as for a free ...
1997–present. Labels. Palm Pictures. Ejigayehu Shibabaw, known by her stage name Gigi (born 1974), is an Ethiopian singer. She has performed the music of Ethiopia in combination with a wide variety of other genres, often in collaboration with her former husband Bill Laswell, a bassist and producer.