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Mahmoud Ahmed is an Ethiopian vocalist of Gurage descent, born on May 8, 1941, in the Mercato district of Addis Ababa. He began his professional singing career in the early 1960s at the Arizona Club, a semi-legal establishment in Addis Ababa where he initially worked in maintenance. His career flourished after Emperor Haile Selassie I eased restrictions on music production. However, following the Derg coup in 1974, which led to the forced dethroning of the Emperor and imprisonment of the imperial family, he and his fellow musicians were forced back underground domestically. Despite this, he continued to perform for foreigners and traveled extensively internationally during the 1980s. Mahmoud is now a widely recognized musician both in Ethiopia and abroad, having won the BBC World Music Award in 2007.

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