The Most Famous
MUSICIANS from Ethiopia
This page contains a list of the greatest Ethiopian Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 2,662 Musicians, 1 of which were born in Ethiopia. This makes Ethiopia the birth place of the 81st most number of Musicians behind Panama and Myanmar (Burma).
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ethiopian Musicians of all time. This list of famous Ethiopian Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mulatu Astatke (1943 - )
With an HPI of 51.55, Mulatu Astatke is the most famous Ethiopian Musician. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Mulatu Astatke (Amharic: ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ, romanized: mulatu ästaṭḳe; French pronunciation: Astatqé; born 19 December 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger considered as the father of "Ethio-jazz". Born in Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music. Mulatu led his band while playing vibraphone and conga drums—instruments that he introduced into Ethiopian popular music—as well as other percussion instruments, keyboards, and organs. His albums focus primarily on instrumental music, and Mulatu appears on all three known albums of instrumentals that were released during the Ethiopian Golden Age of Music in 1970s.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as musicians born between 1943 and 1943. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living musicians include Mulatu Astatke.
