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Aster Aweke |
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| Biography | |
| Aster Aweke is one of the most popular Ethiopian artists
of a younger generation. In the past 30 years or so, singers like Mahmoud Ahmed and bands
like the Roha band and the Wallis Band performed in
Ethiopian night clubs, sport stadiums and sold hundreds of thousands of cassettes, but little of this was
known to the West. Ethiopian music is quite different from music of other African
countries, with bluesy and soul influences, the use of the piano and a distinct
horn section. Nowadays, the keyboard is widely in use, but, surprisingly, this harms the
power of the melodies and haunting rhythms much less than could be expected. Based in New York since the early 1980s, Aster Aweke adds her talent and expressive voice and partly thanks to the pioneering British World Music label "Triple Earth", her talent was also recognised outside of the Ethiopian community through the release of two albums, « Aster » and « Kabu ». Musicians on Hagere: Henock Temesgen: bass, backing vocals Abegasu K. Shiota: keyboards, backing vocals Kevin Salem: guitar Fasil Wuhib: bass, backing vocals Grant Stewart: saxophone Evan Dobbins: trombone John Sneider: trumpet Born: Around 1960, in Gondar Style: Ethiopian soul |
 Aster Aweke |
| Discography |
| Title | Year | Label | Remarks |
| Checheho | 2010 | Kabu Records | |
| Fikir | 2007 | Kabu Records | |
| Aster's Ballads | 2004 | Kabu Records 003-2 | |
| Sugar | 2002 | Kabu Records 002-2 | |
| Hagere | 1999 | Kabu Records 001-2 | |
| Live in London | 1997 | Barkhanns BARKCD 102 | |
| Ebo | 1993 | Barkhanns 2222-2 | |
| Kabu | 1991 | Triple Earth Terra 110 | Also on Columbia CK 47846 |
| Aster | 1989 | Triple Earth Terra 107 | Also on CBS |
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