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Gigi (singer)

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Ejigayehu Shibabaw, known by her stage name Gigi, is one of the most successful contemporary Ethiopian singers worldwide. [1]

43 relations: Aïyb Dieng, Afropop Worldwide, Agaw languages, Angelina Jolie, Banning Eyre, Beyond Borders (film), Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Chagni, Chris Blackwell, Derg, Enter the Chicken, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Fanu, Future 2 Future, God Grew Tired of Us, Guitar, Henry Threadgill, Herbie Hancock, Hollywood, Human voice, Island Records, Jazz, Karsh Kale, Kenya, Keyboard instrument, Krar, M.O.D. Technologies, Material (band), Music genre, Music of Ethiopia, Nicky Skopelitis, Palm Pictures, Pharoah Sanders, Public Radio International, Reggae, San Francisco, Tabla, Tabla Beat Science, Tigist Shibabaw, Wayne Shorter, 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.

Aïyb Dieng

Aïyb Dieng is a Senegalese drummer and percussionist specializing in hand drums.

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Afropop Worldwide

Afropop Worldwide is a radio program that presents the musics of Africa and the African diaspora.

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Agaw languages

The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are spoken by small groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Banning Eyre

Banning Eyre is a guitarist, writer, photographer, and producer specializing in the music of Africa.

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Beyond Borders (film)

Beyond Borders is a 2003 romantic-drama film about aid workers, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo and Kate Ashfield.

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Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.

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Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American musician who has worked within many genres of music.

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Chagni

Chagni (also known as Kedamawi Haile Selassie Ber) is a town in North Western Ethiopia.

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Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels".

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Derg

The Derg, Common Derg or Dergue (Ge'ez: ደርግ, meaning "committee" or "council") is the short name of the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987.

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Enter the Chicken

Enter the Chicken is the fourteenth studio album by musician Buckethead.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (የኢትዮጵያ:ኦርቶዶክስ:ተዋሕዶ:ቤተ:ክርስቲያን; Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches.

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Fanu

Fanu is the alias of music DJ, producer, and label founder Janne Hatula (born October 8, 1980).

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Future 2 Future

Future 2 Future is the forty-third album by Herbie Hancock.

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God Grew Tired of Us

God Grew Tired of Us is a 2006 documentary film about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1944) is an American composer, saxophonist, and flautist, who came to prominence in the 1970s leading jazz ensembles with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating genres other than jazz.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Karsh Kale

Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-lay, कर्ष काळे in Marathi; born 1 November 1974, West Bromwich) is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, film composer and DJ.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Krar

The krar or kraar is a five- or six-stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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M.O.D. Technologies

M.O.D. Technologies is an independent record label based in New York City and intended to be the modern evolution of producer and bassist Bill Laswell's Axiom label.

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Material (band)

Material is a musical group formed in 1979 and led by bass guitarist Bill Laswell.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music of Ethiopia

The music of Ethiopia is extremely diverse, with each of Ethiopia's ethnic groups being associated with unique sounds.

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Nicky Skopelitis

Nicky Skopelitis is an American guitarist and composer of Greek descent, best known as a guitarist.

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Palm Pictures

Palm Pictures is a US-based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Public Radio International

Public Radio International (PRI) is an American public radio organization.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Tabla

The tabla is a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, consisting of a pair of drums, used in traditional, classical, popular and folk music.

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Tabla Beat Science

Tabla Beat Science was a musical group founded in 1999 by Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell.

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Tigist Shibabaw

Tigist Shibabaw (1980–January 2008), born in Chagni, Ethiopia, was an Ethiopian singer and one of the original members of the Harlem-based hip hop fusion band Bole2Harlem.

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Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia

A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_(singer)

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