{"id":448149,"date":"2023-05-28T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=448149"},"modified":"2023-05-28T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:43:15","slug":"prominent-ethiopian-singer-longtime-friend-of-pm-abiy-defects-after-release-of-critical-music-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/448149","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Ethiopian singer, longtime friend of PM Abiy defects after release of critical music video: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent Ethiopian singer Getish Mamo has defected to an unspecified country after the recent release of a critical music video, the US based online media outlet Reyot media reported on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citing anonymous sources, Reyot media reported Getish has defected to an unspecified country after enduring government sanctioned harassment for a recent music video critical of the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getish, a folk singer who has in the past claimed to have decades old friendship with PM Abiy had openly praised Abiy when he first came to power in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, earlier this month Getish released a music video that criticized pervasive cronyism, tribalism and discrimination in Abiy Ahmed\u2019s administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getish had previously released a critical song in the dying days of the administration of former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn which at the time was well received by Ethiopian public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hailemariam resigned and handed over power to PM Abiy in April 2018, amid widespread unrest directed at his administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recent Getish Mamo music video titled \u201cQota Qota Alesh\u201d has so far received nearly two million views on YouTube in a span of only three weeks. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Ag5pmphtdI<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another famous Ethiopian singer, Abinet Agonafir has also recently released a song critical of the current Ethiopian administration which has so far received around 1.5 million views on YouTube.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=86t7w-cnTaw<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Ethiopian singer Getish Mamo has defected to an unspecified country after the recent release of a critical music video, the US based online media outlet Reyot media reported on Saturday.\u00a0 Citing anonymous sources, Reyot media reported Getish has defected to an unspecified country after enduring government sanctioned harassment for a recent music video critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":448150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-448149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ab67616d0000b2736cfa879efd747086668d2f7d.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1SAd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448151,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448149\/revisions\/448151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}