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The dance orchestra leader Yebuah Mensah (E.T. Mensah's older brother) told John Collins in 1973 that the term 'highlife' appeared in the early 1920s "as a catch-phrase for the orchestrated indigenous songs played at [exclusive] clubs by such early dance bands as the Jazz Kings, the Cape Coast Sugar Babies, the Sekondi Nanshamang and later the ...
7 Highlife. 8 Hiplife. 9 Ghanaian Drill. 10 Reggae. 11 Composers/others. 12 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This is a list of notable past and present ...
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The Fanti Osibisaaba pioneered Africanised cross-fingering guitar techniques which developed to be Ghanaian Highlife, Maringa of Sierra Leone, the Juju music of western Nigeria and "dry" music of Central Africa. [1] Later in 1930, in rural Ghana,there was a fusion with traditional Akan "seprewa" or harp-lute.
Koo Nimo (born Kwabena Boa-Amponsem [1] on 3 October 1934), [2] baptized Daniel Amponsah [1] is a leading folk musician of Palm wine music or Highlife music from Ghana. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Biography
George Darko (12 January 1951 – 20 March 2024) was a Ghanaian burger-highlife musician, guitarist, vocalist, composer and songwriter, who was on the music scene from the late 1960s. [1] A native of Akropong , Ghana, [ 1 ] Darko was popular in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and his songs are some of the most timeless and enduring highlife tracks ...
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was rather unknown outside of West Africa until Soundway Records included his seminal Simigwa-Do, [6] which Ambolley released in 1973, on their first anthology, Ghana Soundz. [7] Ambolley's sound has led many to label him the godfather of hiplife, the fusion of hip hop and highlife [2] idioms. Ambolley stood aside AL Threats ...
Kokooko was the first major fusion of hiplife and highlife in Ghana. [1] Many successful albums followed thus earning him one of his many nicknames "Hitman"."Wo da enda","Ahoofe", and "Still I love you" are a few of his popular songs. Among youths and old, he is popular and beloved. Daasebre's songs are mostly mid tempo and include many hip hop ...