Music and Concerts Taxi to ‘Tizita,’ Ethiopian-born musician Hailu Mergia has always put his music first ... Ethiopian-born musician Hailu Mergia at home in Fort Washington, Maryland, on June ...

My short documentary, Tizita, is about exiled Ethiopian artists who are trying to establish themselves in Canada. The film follows three musicians who gather in a little café to play a tizita ...

In Ethiopia, Tizita is a style of music that translates to nostalgia. The lyrics draw on childhood memories, lost loves and land, sparking imagery and shared memories that get to the essence of ...

Growing up in Brooklyn… and in Iowa, this was the music that was on our parents stereo. It was juxtaposed with 80s pop radio [think David Bowie, and Prince], but these songs like this tizita were ...

Ethio-jazz has an eerie, empyrean quality, its composition and instrumentation generally vastly different to anything in western music. One of the main markers of difference is the use of pentatonic ...

The legendary Ethiopian Tizeta Singer Dr. Mahmud Ahmed had celebrated his 75th birthday colorfully last Thursday at Yared School of music in the presence of his friends and lovers of his songs.