Faisal Helwani

b. 1946, Sekondi, Ghana. Originally a percussionist, Lebanese-Ghanaian Helwani found the fore as who owns Accra’s important Napoleon Golf club in the 70s, from where he handled and produced lots of the nation’s most talented youthful rings – including Basa Basa Seems and Hedzolleh Soundz. It had been Helwani who originally place Hedzolleh in the studio room with Hugh Masekela. He also briefly handled Fela Kuti through the past due 70s, when the Afrobeat celebrity was away from home from the authorities and army back Nigeria, aswell as overseeing the professions of groups like the Uhurus. He founded the Studio room 99 complicated in 1984 in Liberia, generating 36 cassette albums in its 1st year of procedure. As an impresario, Helwani is still a force around the west African origins music scene.