Through his poetically eloquent protest songs, the young singer-songwriter came to represent the Oromo struggle.
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Musicians established themselves in the US, where they continued to practice their cultural life, which flourished.
Her exquisite piano compositions drew fans to the Jerusalem monastery where she lived after fleeing Ethiopia.
His songs about the rights of the Oromo people in Ethiopia lifted the spirits of a downtrodden people and his death shook the nation.
The outspoken singer always considered himself to be at risk, and in Ethiopia people loved him because he didn’t let that risk keep him quiet.
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Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London
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G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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UNESCO Chair: Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts, University of Glasgow
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Senior research and teaching fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich