Today I heard Tewodros Tadesse sing live. The song I’ve heard before, its one of my favorite songs. There are a few songs that I classify as memory songs. One is ‘Abeba yehoye?Lem Lem,’ the Meskerem song. This past Ethiopian New Years I saw Neway Debeb doing his version with Chachi Taddesse at the New [...]
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A lot is known about our famous singers. Through written biographies or TV and Radio interviews we are aware how they got started and where and when they sang a particular song. What is less known though are the stories behind the songs. The lyricists (yeGitim Derassi), the music writers (yeZema Derassi), the arrangers (aqenbabari) [...]
Turn your speakers up and click and then do the McNaaasty, Godfather himself.. This will pump you up more than the Rocky theme song. Sylvester would have made 9 Rockies instead of 6. I never thought of James as a jazz musician until recently, I always thought of him as Soul, Motown..ah maybe my pubescent [...]
