Biography of ethiopian artists mohamud

Ethiopian singer (born 1941)

This article is about the Ethiopian singer. For the Egyptian water polo player, see Mahmoud Ahmed (water polo).

For the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence, see Mahmud Ahmed.

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic.

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The article properly refers to the person by his given name, Mahmoud, and not as Ahmed.

Musical artist

Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941)^[1][2][3] is an Ethiopian singer.^[4] He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in the 1970s and among the Ethiopian diaspora in the 1980s, before rising to international fame with African music fans in Europe and the Americas.

Biography

Born in Addis Ababa, Mercato district,^[5] Mahmoud was enthralled with the music he heard on Ethiopian radio from an early age. Having poorly learned in school, he worked as a shoeshiner before becoming a handyman at the Arizona Club, which