Mahmoud Ahmed

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Born 8 May 1941.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC - JULY 8: Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed performs on the Scene Bell stag Rogan Coles

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Mahmoud Ahmed (born May 8, 1941) (Amharic: መሀሙድ አህመድ) is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry. 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.

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