Esubalew Yitayew (እሱባለው ይታየው) posted the official video for Leyetu Gize New (ለየቱ ጊዜ ነው) on Friday, November 6. By Saturday afternoon, November 14, eight days later, the video had been watched about 3.98 million times on his YouTube channel, Esubalew Yitayew Yeshi.
The clip runs 4 minutes and 36 seconds. In the official thumbnail, Esubalew sits in the back of a yellow taxi with a guitar, a cap pulled low, as the song title is written across the window in Amharic.
He wrote the words and the melody himself. Michael Hailu arranged and mixed the track, Ermi Alem recorded it, and Kirubel Tesfaye mastered it. Sewmehon Yismaw produced the video, and Dagmawi Abebe directed it and shot the footage. The lead actor is Yitna Demisse.
Tewnet.com first listed Esubalew in 2018, among the Addis Music Award winners for 2010 in the Ethiopian calendar. He is one of several Ethiopian singers who have put out new videos this month, including Veronica Adane, who released two songs on Thursday.
Video: Esubalew Yitayew, Leyetu Gize New (ለየቱ ጊዜ ነው), official video, posted on his YouTube channel on November 6, 2026.
