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Selam Woldemariam (Selam Seyoum Woldemariam) was born on 10 June, 1954 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire, is an Ethiopian musician and guitarist. Discover Selam Woldemariam's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Selam Seyoum Woldemariam
Occupation Producer guitarist · production consultant · writer · arranger
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 10 June 1954
Birthday 10 June
Birthplace Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Nationality Ethiopia

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1896

He wrote his senior essay on Ethiopian music: "Origin and Development of Zemenawi Music in Ethiopia, 1896-1974".

1954

Selam Seyoum Woldemariam (born 10 June 1954), also known as Selamino, is an Ethiopian-born Eritrean musician and guitarist.

He has turned out 250 albums in his more than forty years as a professional musician.

He has been called "The Jimi Hendrix of Ethiopia" and is a national legend.

Selam Seyoum Woldemariam was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1954 to a director-teacher, Seyoum Woldemariam Kidane, and an assistant teacher-housewife, Tsirha Nemariam.

While in Ethiopia, his father worked in a school run by American missionaries.

The family owned an acoustic guitar, and while each of his siblings tried to learn, he was the most disciplined in his musical study.

He was 10 or 11 years old when he went to Asmara with his family.

1960

During the mid-1960s, Woldemariam formed a church music quintet choir group in Asmara at Geza Kenisha, which became popular and pulled hundreds of followers to the church where they performed.

Later, they included a Swedish drummer but the sound eventually became too noisy for the elderly congregation and they had to discontinue playing.

1970

The Ibex and ROHA Band dominated the music of the 1970s and 1980s.

They arranged and recorded well over 250 albums, 2500 songs, accompanying various Ethiopian singers.

1972

Woldemariam moved to Addis Ababa in 1972 and finished high school.

This was at the height of the Ethiopian Civil War and classes in most schools, including Addis Ababa University were disrupted.

Soon, all higher learning institutions were closed, while students and staff were forced to join the national campaign (Idget Behibret).

With the Addis Ababa University closed, Woldemariam could no longer continue his education.

1973

He joined The Black Soul Band while they were on tour in Addis Ababa in 1973.

Alemayehu Eshete and Slim Jones were the main singers of the group and together with Tesfaye Lemma of Orchestra Ethiopia, they traveled to various parts of Ethiopia.

1974

Towards mid-1974, Woldemariam and some other members of Black Soul Band joined the Venus Club.

After working for a year or so at the Venus Club, Woldemariam replaced Zimbabwean Ibex Band guitar player Andrew Wilson at the Ras Hotel.

During that time, Ibex was dominated by two foreign musicians: Ismail Jingo, vocalist and percussionist and Andrew Wilson, lead guitarist.

At the time, most foreigners were leaving Ethiopia due to the revolution and Jingo and Wilson couldn’t stay.

As a result, the band re-formed as Ibex (II) with the inclusion of some new members.

Mahmoud Ahmed was already in the group.

1975

The first recording the group did was his Ere Mela Mela album (LP) around 1975, which was later to become their first ever CD in Ethiopian history, released by a good friend, Francis Falceto on his Éthiopiques series, Éthiopiques # 7.

1979

Ibex disbanded in 1979 as most of its members left for the Sudan, while Mahmoud left for the US.

The remaining three members, Giovanni Rico, Fekadu Andemeskel and Selam Woldemariam, formed ROHA Band.

1980

From 1980 to 1990, The ROHA Band traveled extensively, throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the USA as well as to some parts of Africa.

1987

Mulatu Astatke joined the ROHA Band at the Paris and Spain summer shows in 1987.

1988

Woldemariam later returned and graduated with a bachelor's of arts degree in history from Addis Ababa University in 1988.

2000

During 2000, Woldemariam moved to the US, and started collaboration on the Power of The Trinity project with the Brooklyn-based Tomas Doncker Band.

Besides co-writing and playing guitar on some tunes, Woldemariam is also involved as a production consultant.

2012

He has performed with the group at various venues including Blue Note Jazz Club N.Y., City Winery and the long-awaited show at the New York Summer stage in July and August 2012.

Woldemariam is in the process of expanding his thesis paper on Ethiopian music and gathering together a book based on his over forty years of experience in music.

2020

He has also released his new "GRACE" instrumental album in 2020 available on all social platforms, including Itunes, Cdbaby, Youtube and Spotify.

"GRACE" is nominated in two categories for the WammiesDC Award 2021.