Gabriel Teodros

<a href="spotify:artist:09xMHuXOmWfykJIa1x8UQP" data-name="Gabriel Teodros">Gabriel Teodros</a> is a musician and writer from South Seattle who first made a mark with the group <a href="spotify:artist:1PwLnRX7n0j6VaUHRxLQb5" data-name="Abyssinian Creole">Abyssinian Creole</a>, and reached an international audience with his critically-acclaimed solo debut <a href="spotify:album:5lCAeQvXDjwQ7SQxiGU2ad" data-name="Lovework">Lovework</a>. He has been setting stages on fire ever since, touring all across the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Ethiopia and South Africa.

His latest album <a href="spotify:album:4z5phvKhHu5ua6MLZxIcEm" data-name="From the Ashes of Our Homes">From the Ashes of Our Homes</a> opens with a reflection on the day Teodros and his spouse Ijeoma Oluo fled from an actual house fire, and expands as a full-length meditation on the loss of home and safety so many of us experienced these last few years as a result of wars, the pandemic, the climate catastrophe, and more - and how do we build something new from the ashes of all of our collective homes.

Ashes was preceded by 2020&#39;s COVID-era lost tapes compilation <a href="spotify:album:4kRvjQ35kPi0HpsGQuwH7F" data-name="What We Leave Behind">What We Leave Behind</a>, 2018&#39;s <a href="spotify:album:3rz61gIsxRlI0ny1BjdD5M" data-name="History Rhymes If It Doesn&#39;t Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual)">History Rhymes If It Doesn&#39;t Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual)</a>, another collective exercise in moving through trauma that made NPR say &#34;Gabriel Teodros is one of the bravest rappers currently working in Seattle&#34;, and 2014&#39;s <a href="spotify:album:55NYGwfiLUIxR2tR7htt2g" data-name="Evidence of Things Not Seen">Evidence of Things Not Seen</a>, a James Baldwin-inspired collaboration with Aotearoa-based producer <a href="spotify:artist:7rdiGVXL2fFyONexHzfKFS" data-name="SoulChef">SoulChef</a> described by critics as Teodros&#39; strongest album yet, after a decade of notable releases that also include <a href="spotify:album:54NCawJR01lVIbBWUPPRfq" data-name="Colored People&#39;s Time Machine">Colored People&#39;s Time Machine</a>, <a href="spotify:album:7K4zp70ATPvojLxNnY5gZc" data-name="Children of the Dragon">Children of the Dragon</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7pvq93E8MiKMbbWVprjjAm" data-name="CopperWire">CopperWire</a>&#39;s <a href="spotify:album:1hDUn5w06sqoqaa2HffdLh" data-name="Earthbound">Earthbound</a>.

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