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Gossaye Tesfaye was born in April 1975 in Addis Ababa and grew up in Merkato. He attended Yekatit 23 Elementary School and completed secondary school at Kolfe Comprehensive Secondary School. While in high school, he sang to his fellow students as he was a member of a Red Cross Music Society Group formed by students.
Jano Band is an Ethiopian rock band formed by its entrepreneurs Ermyas Amelga, Bill Laswell and former manager Addis Gessesse in 2011. It versatilely mixes progressive rock with Ethiopian music. The band includes two female back and lead vocalists, two lead male vocalists, and four musicians who play bass guitar, rhythm guitar, drum, and keyboards.
The Ethiopian traditional music embodied with strong oral-literature style. In this case, the traditional music is played by local entertainers called azmaris. Music in Ethiopia was originated, as part of Christian religious service during Yared-era in the 6th century. Muslim form called manzuma also developed in Harar and Jimma. [1]
The Ethiopian Golden Age of Music was an era of Ethiopian music that began around the 1960s to 1970s, until the Derg regime progressively diminished its presence through politically motivated persecutions and retributions against musicians and companies, which left many to self-imposed exile to North America and Europe.
The song was recorded on February 10, 1985 at Manta Sound studios in Toronto. Foster revealed the melody of the song was originally offered to filmmaker Joel Schumacher as incidental music for his film St. Elmo's Fire. Schumacher reported hated it but was later, in Foster's words, "really pissed" when it showed up later as a charity single. [2]
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Orchestra Ethiopia was an Ethiopian concert band formed in 1963 by the Egyptian-born American composer and ethnomusicologist Halim El-Dabh (born 1921). The group, which was founded in Addis Ababa, comprised up to 30 traditional instrumentalists, vocalists, and dancers from many different Ethiopian regions and ethnic groups (including Amhara, Tigrayans, Oromo, Welayta, and Gimira).
Ethiopian Orthodox believers are strict Trinitarians, [58] maintaining the Orthodox teaching that God is united in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This concept is known as səllase (ሥላሴ), [citation needed] Geʽez for "Trinity". Daily services constitute only a small part of an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian's religious observance.