As the Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou approached the age of 100, fans and music critics from the US to Ethiopia, Israel to Europe have been eagerly rediscovering her work.

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who died recently, wrote pieces that were elegiac, but suffused with a sense of survival: we are broken, we are wounded, we carry on.

Through his poetically eloquent protest songs, the young singer-songwriter came to represent the Oromo struggle.

—Mihret Melaku’s Column, ‘Three Little Birds: Yared’s Inspiration From Above’ is about the Ethiopian composer Yared and his musical notational system.

"Circus Abyssinia: Tulu," now playing at the New Victory Theater in New York City, honors an Olympic gold-medal winner from Ethiopia.

Ethiopian-born, she was on track to be a concert pianist before choosing a monastic life. But her later piano recordings gained fans. Norah Jones called them “beautiful.” ...