Eténèsh Wassié

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

[1] She began performing in the 1990s in Addis Ababa in azmaribèt - a crossover between cabaret and the Azmari vocal tradition.

[1] She is renowned for singing in Amharic and is a leading blues singer in Addis Ababa where she lives.

[2] In 2007 Wassié began a collaboration with Mathieu Sourisseau, which fused her knowledge of traditional music and his jazz guitar,[3] known as Ethio-jazz.

[4] She performed at Seine-Saint Denis Festival in 2018, celebrating twenty years of Éthiopiques.