Eténèsh Wassié

Eténèsh Wassié (born 1971) is an Ethiopian jazz singer, renowned for her collaborative approach to music and performance.

Biography Wassié was born in 1971 in Gondar to an Ethiopian Orthodox family. She began performing in the 1990s in Addis Ababa in azmaribèt - a crossover between cabaret and the Azmari vocal tradition.

In 2007 Wassié began a collaboration with Mathieu Sourisseau, which fused her knowledge of traditional music and his jazz guitar, known as Ethio-jazz. She performed at Seine-Saint Denis Festival in 2018, celebrating twenty years of Éthiopiques.

Discography

Zeraf! (2007, album with Le Tigre des Plantanes) Belo Belo (2010, album with Mathieu Sourisseau) Yene Alem (2018, album with Mathieu Sourisseau) Hagir Fikir (2020, single with Ozferti)