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Mickaël Bethe-Selassié (1951–2020), sculptor known for papier mâché. Skunder Boghossian (1937–2003), painter, art teacher; Ethiopian of Armenian heritage. Yadesa Bojia (born 1970), artist, designer; lives in Seattle. Nicolò Brancaleon ( c. 1460 – after 1526), Italian painter whose adopted the art style in Ethiopia.
Music of Eritrea. Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin, however, often it is applied to a genre, a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes. The music of the Ethiopian Highlands uses a fundamental modal system called qenet, of which there are four main ...
Ethiopian jazz, also referred to as Ethio-jazz, is a blend of traditional Ethiopian music with jazz, combining the pentatonic scale -based melodies of Amharic music with the 12-tone scale and instrumentation of western music. Over time the genre has grown to include elements from other genres such as afrofunk, soul, Armenian jazz, and Latin ...
Eskista ( Amharic: እስክስታ) is a traditional Ethiopian cultural dance originated from the Amhara ethnic group [ 1] performed by men, women, and children. It's known for its unique emphasis on intense shoulder movement which it shares with the shim-shim dance of the Tigrinya people in neighboring Eritrea. The dance is characterized by ...
Several artists and musical companies, as well as recording groups, emerged to produce their own singles and albums; the first being Amha Records, and Philips Records, Ethiopia Records and Kaifa Records, which is primarily based in Addis Ababa. The musical era involved a blend of traditional and folk genres as well as western ones.
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Tizita music genre. Tizita songs are a popular music genre in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It's named after the Tizita Qañat mode/scale used in such songs. [1] Tizita is known for strongly moving listener's feelings not only among the Amhara, but a large number of Ethiopians, in general. [5]
Dawit Yifru. Categories: African artists. Artists by nationality. Ethiopian art. Ethiopian people by occupation. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.