Alemayehu Eshete

Alemayehu Eshete (; French pronunciation: Alèmayèhu Eshèté; June 1941 – 2 September 2021) was an Ethiopian jazz singer. His career began in the 1960s. Most of his music was in Amharic. He was nicknamed "the Ethiopian Elvis". Eshete was born in Jimma, Ethiopia. Eshete was popular in Europe with the release of Buda Musique's Ethiopiques series of compilations on compact disc.ETHIOPIQUES VOLUME 09 on Buda Musique , Retrieved 10 September 2012.

Eshete died on 2 September 2021 in a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from a heart attack caused by heart disease at the age of 80.

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