Ebo Taylor

Given birth to in 1936, guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and maker Ebo Taylor is a essential figure around the Ghanaian music picture for over six years. In the past due ’50s he was mixed up in influential highlife rings the Stargazers as well as the Broadway Dance Music group, and in 1962 he required his personal group, the Dark Star Highlife Music group, to London, which resulted in collaborations with Fela Kuti along with other African music artists in Britain at that time. Time for Ghana, he worked well as a maker, crafting recordings for Pat Thomas, C.K. Mann, among others, in addition to exploring his personal projects, merging traditional Ghanaian materials with Afro-beat, jazz, and funk rhythms to generate his personal recognizable sound within the ’70s. Taylor’s function became well-known internationally with hip-hop suppliers in the 21st hundred years, which resulted in the discharge of Like and Loss of life on Strut Information this year 2010, his 1st internationally distributed record. Its achievement prompted Strut to concern the stellar retrospective Lifestyle Tales: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980, within the springtime of 2011. A season afterwards, in 2012, another Strut record, the deeply personal Appia Kwa Bridge, made an appearance, and demonstrated that at 76, Taylor was still intensely innovative and focused, mixing up traditional Fante music and chants with children’s rhymes and personal issues into his very own sharp eyesight of highlife. That record proclaimed the start of a favorite renaissance for Taylor around thw globe. Early singles as well as other monitors appeared on several compilations on the next year or two, and in 2015, his rarest record, Ebo Taylor & The Pelicans got a grand reissue treatment. His early strike, the Ghana funk anthem “ARRIVE” produced DJ playlists internationally. In Feb 2016, at age group 80, he opened up the MOGO Festival’s Evenings with Music Greats. The gig became a precursor for the luxurious reissue of his 1975 record, My Like and Music on Mr. Bongo.