"Born in Addis Ababa, Mercato district, Mahmoud was enthralled with the music he heard on Ethiopian radio from an early age. Having poorly learned in school, he worked as a shoeshiner before becoming ...

Ethiopian popular music went through an intense creative flowering during the early '70s, cross-referencing traditional styles with jazz, funk, rock, and whatever else could be used to get people ...

Strangely, one can thank disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer for helping bring a once-in-a-lifetime bill full of great Ethiopian music to Lincoln Center this month. As attorney general, the noted ...