Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

In 1997, Buda Musique, a French record label, launched “Éthiopiques,” a multivolume CD series that collected songs from Ethiopia’s golden age of pop music—an era that began in the late sixties and ...

Artist is in "a good space," and is working on at least six new songs, according to Raphael Saadiq — including a long-lost track from Linwood Rose, the supergroup with Q-Tip, Saadiq, and D'Angelo ...