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Teddy Afro real name: Tewodros Kassahun in
Amharic: is an Ethiopian music sensation and one of the most
successful singers and song writers from Ethiopia recently Afro musical
success has been credited to the powerful messages conveyed through His
songs from compassion to courage and from forgiveness to love Afro has
been able to break artistic boundaries that were previously untouched,
he has been compared with Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley in part
because of his ability to bring a political spiritual and rhythmic
presence of his listeners Afro also notable for their work with other
young people and inspire artists all over Ethiopia
In
2002, Teddy released his debut album Abugida named after "Abugida", Or
the ABC of the Amharic language album catapulted him to the global music
scene and quickly won him the admiration of his people and people from
all walks of life throughout the world, several tracks in particular
quickly caught the ear of many listeners outside his native Ethiopia -
"Halieselassie" a tribute to the late Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie
I, "Haile Haile" a hit single in honor of Olympic long distance
champion and national hero Haile Gebrselassie, and "Mona Lisa" is a
measure of human beauty album was dubbed a success of Ethiopian
contemporary music and was reported seven times
In 2004, Teddy
released his most successful single to date Tarik Teserra ("History was
made") in honor of world record holder and 2004 Olympic gold medalist
Kenenisa Bekele Song obtainngade feelings of the entire Ethiopian nation
A music video was compiled including images from other great Ethiopian
distance runner and Bekele's 10,000 meters gold runs in the 2004 Summer
Olympic Games in the entire video Bekele is called new Anbessa ("Lion")
in the Ethiopian long-distance running will succeed the great Haile
Gebrselassie Bekele displayed several times looking back on his mentor
Haile Gebrselassie who could not run the 10,000 meter race at full speed
because of a lingering injury, the only listed Afro's reputation as one
of the greatest Ethiopian artists of his time and increased the release
of his second Album
The long anticipated second album was
finally released i2005 Yasteseryal was a Roumen that the ruling party
(EPRDF) is not happy about this album and vs after Teddy in the past
now, there is a disturbing news that Teddy Afro arrested by the EPRDF
(http://wwwethrevcom/00011042006_indexhtml) But you have to know that
tens of thousands of people, including party leader University Profs
students human right activists, NGO leaders CBO leaders suffer in
prisons and the arrest of Teddy is not a new innovation for the
Ethiopians except to think about who the next. |
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