አቡጊዳ ባንድ
A collective of maestros weaving the complex rhythms of Ethiopian jazz, soul, and traditional melody into a singular, world-class experience.
Ermias T Kebede
Bass
Picked up the guitar at St. Joseph High school in Addis through the persuasion of a best friend, Teddy Shawl, and that began his on going love affair with music. He joined the high school band of his batch which started his first exposure to live band music. He continued college in US where while studying computer science further immersed in the live music scene playing for several bands differing in genre from funky jazz to reggae.
Kofi
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RUPHAEL WOLDEMARIAM
Drums & Percussion
Ruphael had the aspiration to play drums from an early age, when he was about Twelve years old he decided to build his own drums from tin roof (korkoro), using Pictures to guide him, and rehearsed with it every day after school, until he joined Dallol band at age fourteen. He joined TEDDY AFRO, and ABUGIDA BAND in 2006, and And have toured the world with them, and continuous to do so at the present time.
Tewodros Aklilu
Piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer
Tewodros Aklilu is an Ethiopian musician residing in Chicago. Tewodros uses the keyboard (piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer) as his main instrument. In addition to; improvised sessions which occasionally get recorded, and even less occasionally result in original compositions, Tewodros enjoys explorations in the creating and recreating of harmonic arrangements for well known and obscure Ethiopian folk music.
Yared Abraham
Keyboard
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Yared was exposed to both traditional and modern Ethiopian music from his early age. While attending college, Yared started to perform as a one-man band at various clubs and restaurants. Ever since then his music career has taken him across Africa, US, Europe and the Middle East where he performed with various Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke, Mohamoud Ahmed, Theodros Tadesse, Hamelmal Abate, Ephrem Tamiru and so on…