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Ruth Eno Adjoa Amankwah Nyame Adom (born 30 October 1991), known professionally by her stage name Eno Barony, is a Ghanaian rapper and songwriter. [1] [2] [3] Born in Tema, Accra, she released her debut single, "Wats Ma Name" and also "Tonga", the remix of the track "Tonga" by Joey B ft Sarkodie in 2014 that lifted her into the limelight.
This is a list of notable past and present musicians in Ghana This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mujahid Ahmed Bello (born 16 August 1988) known by his stage name Fancy Gadam, is a Ghanaian afropop, dancehall and reggae musician. [1] [2] In 2017, he won Ghana Music Awards for Best New Artist [3] and in 2020, he was named Best Afrobeat Entertainer at the International Reggae and World Music Awards.
Daddy Lumba's pairing in 1999 with the rising star produced five hits and shot Ofori Amponsah into the limelight. Altogether he has sprung the careers of 13 different Ghanaian musicians. [citation needed] In 1999, he won three awards including Best Album, Artist of the Year and the Most popular Song of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards.
Michael Owusu Addo (born 10 July 1985), [2] known professionally as Sarkodie (/ s ɑːr ˈ k ɔː d i ɛ /), is a Ghanaian rapper, songwriter, and entrepreneur from Tema. [3] He started rapping at a young age and has since become a household name in the Ghanaian and Global music industry.
In 2018, Amerado was featured on Sarkodie's hip-hop song "Biibi Ba", [15] [16] which was nominated for the Best Hiphop Song at the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. [ 17 ] On 8 August 2019, Ghanaian disc jockey DJ Black released a list of the country's top 50 rappers, ranking Amerado in the forties.
His song "Simigua-do" is considered the first Ghanaian version of previously introduced American rap in the world released in 1973. Ambolley, Sammy Lartey and Ebo Taylor are the few musicians who envisioned a future for high-life music in the late 60s and early 70s and helped transform the genre fusing high-life, funk and jazz [8] [9] music.
Returning to Ghana, Taylor worked as a producer, crafting recordings for Pat Thomas, C. K. Mann, and others, as well as exploring solo projects, combining traditional Ghanaian material with afrobeat, jazz, and funk rhythms to create his own recognizable sound in the 1970s. He was the inhouse guitar player, arranger, and producer for Essiebons ...