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Life and ministry
Temesgen Abide (Hadiyyisa: Tamasgan Abbiide) was born in 1954 A.M. (according to his FB page; = 1962 A.D.)
He is from the Gimbicho area (Hadiyya Zone)
Temesgen owned a cassette shop in Hossana (“Piniel”), etc.
He started a job at Southern Road Authority in 1996 [A.M.?]
Temesgen moved to the US for some years.
He returned to Hossana around 2021.
Albums
(1) _ _ [_ _ _, _ _ _]. Cassette with Hadiyya gospel songs, produced by _ _ _ in _ _ _
![](https://ethiopiangospelmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TemesgenAbide_vol1_480px.jpg)
(2) _ _ [_ _ _, _ _ _]. Cassette recorded by _ _ _ in _ _ _
![](https://ethiopiangospelmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TemesgenAbide_vol2_480px.jpg)
![](https://ethiopiangospelmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TemesgenAbide_vol2_cass_480px.jpg)
(n) _ _ _ [_ _ _, _ _ _]. CD/VCD (with mainly Amharic songs?) published by _ _ _ in 2022 (2015 AM).
Networking
» Follow Temesgen Abide on Facebook (new account, resp. old FB)
Manuscript
» View Temesgen Abide’s handwritten songbook
Songs in hymn book
Waa’i galaxxamona (2013)
No. 96, 121, 478, 493, 499
Audio (commercial and freemium)
» Check Temesgen Abide’s tracks on
- YouTube Music
Albums / songs (YouTube)
Songs from old cassettes:
re-published in 2024:
Video
» Watch music videos
Pictures
![](https://ethiopiangospelmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TemesgenAbide_480px.jpg)
![](https://ethiopiangospelmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TemesgenAbide_AmarechEsatu_1981EC_640px.jpg)
with musician Adene Girma in 1988/89
(adapted from FB post by Temsgen Abide)
Further reading
Peter, Burkhard. Kulturelle Identität und Religiöses Bekenntnis: Synkretismus bei den Hadiyya Südäthiopiens. Aachen: Verlag an der Lottbek im Besitz des Verlags Mainz, 1999.
- Some of the Hadiyyisa songs printed in Peter’s book are probably from Temesgen Abide [then living in Gimbicho]