Dawit Yifru (born 1952) is an Ethiopian
keyboardist
A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instru ...
and music
arranger
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestrat ...
.
Dawit is the founding member and Chairman of the Board of the
Ethiopian Musicians Association. The association was established in the early 2000s in order to help pass the country's first
copyright law
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, e ...
.
He is primarily known for his long tenure performing with
Roha Band
Roha () is a town and subdistrict/upazila/tehsil in the Raigad district of Maharashtra state in India, 120 km southeast of Mumbai between the banks of the Kundalika River and the hills of Kalasgiri. It has a population of over 20,849. ...
, which had dominated contemporary
Ethiopian music
Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin, however, often it is applied to a genre, a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.
The music of the Ethiopian Hi ...
in the early 1980s and 1990s. He has also worked with other bands including
Dahelak.
External links
Appearance by Dawit Yifru as Guest Host on Radio Fana
1952 births
Ethiopian keyboardists
Ethiopian music arrangers
Living people
Ethiopian musicians
Date of birth missing (living people)
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