Yezina Negash "Gedamu" (Ethiopia/Great Britain)

Posted by terusew1
April 22, 2009

Video Summary:

In his or her comments one viewer indicated that this was a video from "I pod Generation Azmaris". ("Azmaris" are a large Ethiopian ethnic group).

The viewer comments also indicated that this Ethiopian group is based in London, England. The video shows the women & men at a house party doing a traditional Ehiopian dance called the Eskista which features rhythmical shoulder isolations/shrugs. The traditional musical instrument that the man is playing in the video is a "Mesinko". A video commentor also mentioned the eye rolling that the featured singer did. This is another traditional custom in singing/dancing, but the eye rolling probably isn't as aesthetically pleasing as the Eskista to most people in the United States.