Ethiopian music: Kassahun Taye - Gonder(ጎንደር) by Miriam

Ethiopian music: Kassahun Taye - Gonder(ጎንደር) - New Ethiopian Music 2017...

Song: Gonder
Singer/group:  Kassahun Taye
Year: 2017
Country: Ethiopia


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Kassahun Taye is one of the most popular traditional Ethiopian music singer/dancer. His style of music is of the Amhara region. Kassahun was born and grew up in Gondar which was once the old imperial capital, at a place known as Belessa, in Northern Ethiopia. Kassahun joined the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front at a very young age. Kassahun went to school while supporting the revolutionary army and it was at that time he started singing. He used his music as a tool to inform and encourage others to fight for freedom.