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- Walias_Band abstract "Walias Band (sometimes spelled Wallias Band; Amharic: ዋሊያስ ባንድ?) were an Ethiopian Jazz and funk band active from the early 1970s until the early 1990s. Formed by members of the Venus Band, Walias backed up many prominent singers with a hard polyrhythmic funk sound influenced by western artists like King Curtis, Junior Walker and Maceo Parker. In 1977 they recorded one of the few albums of Ethiopian instrumental music in collaboration with vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, whose role as a bandleader and composer was also a major influence on Ethiopian popular music.In 1981 Walias became the first modern Ethiopian band to travel to the United States, playing on a tour with singer Mahmoud Ahmed primarily to audiences of Ethiopian refugees. Four members—Girma Bèyènè, Mogès Habté, Mèlakè Gèbrè and Hailu Mergia—stayed in the U.S. and formed a new group called Zula Band in favor of returning to live in Ethiopia under its dictatorship. Mergia took work in Washington DC driving a taxi cab and released solo cassette tapes of traditional Ethiopian music played on analog synthesizer, electric piano and accordion. The remaining members—Yohannes Tèkola and Tèmarè Harègou—continued to play together under the Derg dictatorship for another decade.In the late 1990s Walias Band found a wider audience in the west when the French label Buda Records reissued much of the group's music on the Ethiopiques series of compact discs. Their instrumental, \"Musicawi Silt\", became a popular dance number and has been covered by a number of artists.The Walias Band's name derives from the walia ibex, an endangered species of the Capra genus native to the mountains of Ethiopia. They share no members with the similarly named Ibex Band who also backed up Mahmoud Ahmed during the same epoch.".
- Walias_Band activeYearsEndYear "1990".
- Walias_Band activeYearsStartYear "1970".
- Walias_Band alias "The Walias".
- Walias_Band alias "Wallias Band".
- Walias_Band associatedBand Mahmoud_Ahmed.
- Walias_Band associatedBand Mulatu_Astatke.
- Walias_Band associatedBand Tilahun_Gessesse.
- Walias_Band associatedBand Venus_Band.
- Walias_Band associatedMusicalArtist Mahmoud_Ahmed.
- Walias_Band associatedMusicalArtist Mulatu_Astatke.
- Walias_Band associatedMusicalArtist Tilahun_Gessesse.
- Walias_Band associatedMusicalArtist Venus_Band.
- Walias_Band background "group_or_band".
- Walias_Band formerBandMember Mulatu_Astatke.
- Walias_Band genre Funk_(Music).
- Walias_Band genre Music_of_Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band hometown Addis_Ababa.
- Walias_Band hometown Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band recordLabel Amha_Records.
- Walias_Band recordLabel Kaifa_Records.
- Walias_Band wikiPageID "35717664".
- Walias_Band wikiPageLength "6230".
- Walias_Band wikiPageOutDegree "53".
- Walias_Band wikiPageRevisionID "677409437".
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Accordion.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Addis_Ababa.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Amha_Records.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Analog_synthesizer.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Antibalas.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Book_M.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Buda_Musique.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Buda_Records.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Capra_(genus).
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ethiopian_musical_groups.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Compact_Cassette.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Debo_Band.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Derg.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Dictatorship.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Orchestra.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Electric_piano.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Funk.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Funk_(Music).
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Getatchew_Mekurya.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Instrumental.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Jazz.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Junior_Walker.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Kaifa_Records.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink King_Curtis.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Maceo_Parker.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Mahmoud_Ahmed.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Moa_Anbessa.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Moog_synthesizer.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Mulatu_Astatke.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Music_of_Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Polyrhythm.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Refugee.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Secret_Chiefs_3.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Taxicab.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink The_Ex_(band).
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink The_Rough_Guide_to_the_Music_of_Ethiopia_(2004_album).
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Tilahun_Gessesse.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Venus_Band.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Vibraphone.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Walia_ibex.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink World_Music_Network.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLink Éthiopiques.
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLinkText "Beyene".
- Walias_Band wikiPageWikiLinkText "Walias Band".
- Walias_Band alias "The Walias".
- Walias_Band alias "Wallias Band".
- Walias_Band associatedActs Mahmoud_Ahmed.
- Walias_Band associatedActs Mulatu_Astatke.
- Walias_Band associatedActs Tilahun_Gessesse.
- Walias_Band associatedActs Venus_Band.
- Walias_Band background "group_or_band".
- Walias_Band genre Funk_(Music).
- Walias_Band genre Music_of_Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band label Amha_Records.
- Walias_Band label Buda_Musique.
- Walias_Band label Kaifa_Records.
- Walias_Band name "Walias Band".
- Walias_Band origin Addis_Ababa.
- Walias_Band origin Ethiopia.
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Girma Beyene".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Hailu Mergia".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Mahmoud Aman".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Melake Gebre".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Mulatu Astatke".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Temare Haragy".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Tilaye Gebre".
- Walias_Band pastMembers "Yohanese Tekola".
- Walias_Band wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_musical_artist.
- Walias_Band wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Lang-am.
- Walias_Band wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Walias_Band yearsActive "-1990.0".
- Walias_Band subject Category:Ethiopian_musical_groups.
- Walias_Band hypernym Jazz.