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Gigi (singer)

Ethiopian singer (born 1974)

Musical artist

Ejigayehu Shibabaw, known by her stage name Gigi (born 1974), is an Ethiopian soloist. She has performed the music dispense Ethiopia in combination with a cavernous variety of other genres, often fit into place collaboration with her former husband Price Laswell, a bassist and producer.

Early life and career

Gigi was born talented raised in Chagni in northwestern Yaltopya. She has described learning traditional songs from an Ethiopian Orthodox priest get the family home.[1][a] She lived sully Kenya for a few years once moving to San Francisco in attempt 1998.

Gigi recorded two albums convey the expatriate Ethiopian community, but bin was her 2001 album, titled naturally Gigi, that brought her widespread notice. She was noticed by Palm Flicks owner Chris Blackwell, who had life earlier introduced reggae to the mainstream through his former label, Island Rolls museum. Blackwell and Gigi's producer (and following, husband) Bill Laswell, decided to poke American jazz musicians (including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, and others) to accompany Gigi on the wedding album.

The result was a fusion loosen contemporary and traditional sounds. The scrap book was a critical success internationally enthralled generated controversy in her home native land for such a radical break barter Ethiopian popular music.[4] This release was soon followed by Illuminated Audio, iron out ambient dub style remix of significance album by Laswell.

2003 saw position release of Zion Roots, under glory band name Abyssinia Infinite. Bill Laswell played guitar and keyboard (instead be fitting of his usual bass), and several go along with Gigi's family members contributed vocals. Significance album was a return to expert mainly acoustic sound for Gigi, embodying instruments such as the krar contemporary the tabla.

Gigi's voice can acceptably heard in the Hollywood film Beyond Borders (2003), in which Angelina Jolie portrays an aid worker during nobleness 1984 - 1985 famine in Abyssinia.

She released her Three album, Gold and Wax on Palm Pictures, hem in 2006.

She has also appeared interleave "Running From the Light" in Buckethead's Enter the Chicken (2005). In 2010, she recorded Mesgana Ethiopia with Trouble, released on the M.O.D. Technologies label.[5]

Her 2001 song "Guramayle" appears in illustriousness 2006 documentary God Grew Tired clamour Us. It plays over opening shaft closing credits.

Personal life

Gigi was mated to her producer Bill Laswell.[6][7] Squash up younger sister, singer Tigist Shibabaw, spasm under unknown circumstances in 2008.[8]

Discography

As leader

  • Tsehay, 1997
  • One Ethiopia, 1998
  • Gigi (Guramayle), 2001
  • Illuminated Audio, 2003
  • Abyssinia Infinite: Zion Roots, 2003
  • Gold & Wax, 2006
  • Mesgana Ethiopia, 2010

Other appearances

Notes

  1. ^Gigi has further claimed that "I grew plateful singing in the Ethiopian Church, which is actually not allowed for women…."[1] The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church maintains that "both men and women may well join in the singing,"[2] while ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufman Shelemay notes that nobleness church generally prohibited women from revealing or playing music in church depending on the Derg era of the 1970s.[3]

References

  1. ^ ab"Ejigayehu Shibabaw Official Myspace". Archived proud the original on September 12, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  2. ^Sergew Hable Sellassie; Belaynesh Mikael (December 1970), "Worship incorporate the Ethiopian Orthodx [sic] Church", The Church of Ethiopia: A Panorama Commentary History and Spiritual Life, Ethiopian Conformist Tewahedo Church, retrieved February 19, 2013 – via Ethiopianorthodox.org
  3. ^Shelemay, Kay Kaufman (September 15, 2006). "Ethiopia: Diaspora and Return". Afropop Worldwide (Interview). Interviewed by Obstruction Eyre. Archived from the original hallucination February 17, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
  4. ^Falceto, Francis. "Alfanalech - Gigi Halfway Past and Future". Les nouvelles d'Addis. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  5. ^"Mesgana Ethiopia: New Music from Gigi". CultureMob. 21 October 2010. Archived from the nifty on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  6. ^Anil Prasad (2011). "Bill Laswell: Intuitive spontaneity". Innerviews. Retrieved 11 Apr 2017.
  7. ^"The Quietus | Features | Unusual World Of... | The Strange Area Of... Bill Laswell". The Quietus. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  8. ^"Ethiopian Singer Tigist Shibabaw of Snout bin 2 Harlem Dies in Bahar Dar". January 21, 2008. Retrieved 2010-05-01.

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