Ethiopian Wedding

Listen to legendary Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed sing a traiditional wedding song.

-Song: Lomiwen Tèqèbèlètch
-Album: Ethiopiques, Vol. 3: Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music
-Artist: Mahmoud Ahmed

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Samuel
• Gebru
• smgebru
• Ethiopia
• Mahmoud
• Ahmed
• Weddings
• Ethiopians
• Addis
• Ababa

[Ashangulit]

Can everyone stop complain and just enjoy this beautiful music and pictures . Ugh! So freaking annoying. Thank you to whoever post this. I enjoyed it.

[smgebru]

Thanks for your comment, Ashangulit. People need to sometimes shut up and just appreciate good music when they see it. This is Ethiopian culture. That does not mean it is the only type of Ethiopian culture. Tigray is Ethiopia. Amhara is Ethiopia. Oromia is Ethiopia. And so on. Just appreciate good music.

SMG

[leftysergeant]

Okay, I'm a little puzzled here. This does not sound like anytrhing else Ethiopian that I have heard. From which ethnic group does this come? It sounds almost Arabic, in the vocal style, rythm and instrumentation.

[smgebru]

Ethiopian wedding songs are very different!

[ethi17]

I am proud to be ethiopian look how beautiful we are....

[cbluver22]

1:33 was a picture of a Somali wedding :o

Anyways nice video!

[leftysergeant]

@bolelij I am not as familiar as I would like with all Ethiopian traditions, but there is much about this that resembles some of the Egyptian music I have heard. (I know very little Arabic and nearly no Amharic.) The saxaphone definitely suggested early twentieth-century Egyptian styles that I have heard. Clearly the cultures of Egypt and Ethiopia have some of the same roots and have been subject to some of the same external influences and borrowings.

[bolelij]

@leftysergeant

how can this not sound ethiopian? Everything from the beats to the vocals is soo like the older ethiopian songs.

[ethbole]

Sam, Thanks for posting ths. it is a Legend. I like it more than any other you tube weeding postings.

[AstralBooBaby]

Ethiopian woman are among the most 'naturally' beautiful women in the world!

[asterchereka]

What a cerimony. a tradition.. I love especally the traditional dress par (with the Kabba on and the crons) - The inviated persons all in white with the traditional clothes (hand made /hand wooven cottons and decorated by han )What else we need ?

[liyish]

i agree ashangulit..

[liyish]

Nice perfect video.. 5 stars.. wow. I have to copy you and make a wedding video as well with the Song Yitbark by Taddesse Alemu.. I love Mahamud but sorry he is not my favorite wedding singer...