Tesfaye Gabbiso (Pastor)

Life and Ministry

Tesfaye Gabbiso Doyamo [ተስፋዬ ጋቢሶ ዶያሞ] was born in Dengora Elmete, Aletta Wondo District, Sidama Region, in 1954. His mother … [full profile in forthcoming book on Ethiopian gospel music]

Albums

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Songs in hymn book

Səbhat laʼamlak (2007)

No. 286, 446.

Wädase Amlak, vol. 2 (1991f)

  • no. _ _ _ [altogether 27 songs, according to L. Balisky]

Wädase Amlak, vol. 4 (1997/98)

  • p. 26, 27, 97/98, 114/15, 121, 146

God is Here (1981)

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Audio

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Video

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Testimony

published in 2015:

Interviews

2024 (Nikodimos Show, Tigist Ejigu):

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Lyrics

YeTesfaye Gabbiso mezmuroch / The Songs of Tesfaye Gabbiso. Translated by Haile Jenai, edited by Lila Balisky. Addis Ababa: SIM Press, 2011; revised ed. 2012. [Read online]

Mïhïretu ayalķïhïmïna (‘His Mercy Never Ends’). Lyrics of over 200 songs sung by Tesfaye Gabbiso from 1974-2012. Hawassa: Tesfaye Gabbiso and Hawassa Mulu Wengel Church, 2012/13 (2005 A.M.).

Further reading

(1) Sources

Tesfaye Gabbiso. Music and Worship. Practicum project. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, 2004.

—. Beziyan gize. Addis Ababa: Mulu Wongel Church, 2002 A.M. [2010 A.D.; read online]

  • Engl. translation: Tesfaye Gabbiso. In Those Days: Memoirs of Religious Persecution in Yirga Alem, Ethiopia. Tr. Minas Biruk. Addis Ababa: SIM Press, 2020. [Available from SIM Book Shop]

Tesfaye Gabbiso. _ _ _ M.Th. thesis. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, 2021.

(2) Literature

Balisky, Lila W. “Theology in Song: Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Gabbiso.” Missiology: An International Review 25 (1997): 447-56. [Sage Journals; subscription barrier]

—. Songs of Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Gabbiso: Singing with Understanding in Babylon, the Meantime, and Zion. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018. [p. 251 lists Amharic articles on Tesfaye Gabbiso] [Google Books]

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