Mahmoud Ahmed Homepage
I have been lucky enough to get some of these cassettes and albums, see the man perform and even spoke to him once. Therefore this homepage. To spread the word of this superstar with his awesome earthy voice, his dynamic stage presence and his songs that are deeply melancholic one time and funky the next. Mahmoud Ahmed will be 59 in the year 2000, and
to my knowledge he hasn't made any new music since 1990. He
occasionally tours with a keyboard player and a rhythm box, a
bassplayer, a guitarist and/or saxophone player, performing for
Ethiopian exiles in Europe and America. This summer he will be
touring in Europe, playing France, Belgium and The Netherlands in July.
(Where titles in western alphabet were not present I tried to transcribe the amharic characters. Because it is not always clear whether years are in Ethiopian calendar or European calendar dates are probably not always correct. The discography is partly based on copied cassettes and compilation tapes. I tried to identify them by number or opening track, and occasionally I simply guessed for the year of release). Please visit my music wiki (password tezita) and help me build a world music wikipedia. |
This is an old
fashioned fan-page, dedicated to one of the greatest voices of
popmusic. Yes, he is right there with Otis Redding at the top of
my list. Problem is the man has only a couple of CDs in the shops,
and even those you have to look for. Not that he hasn't been
prolific, but he's from Ethiopia and the forty or more elpees and
cassettes that have been sold, copied and stolen in his homeland
during the seventies and eighties are almost impossible to get
outside of Africa.