Jacob Sam

Jacob Sam (given birth to Kwame Asare) became among the 1st music artists from Ghana to record when his efficiency in. London’s Kingsway Hall was documented from the Zonophone label in 1928. Accompanied with the Kumasi Trio, offering guitarist H.E. Binney and percussionist Kwah Kanta, Sam laid the root base of Central African music with gutsy, baritone vocals, lyrics in the Fanti vocabulary, and melodic, finger-style electric guitar choosing. His best-known tune “Yaa Amponseh,” which he as well as the Kumasi trio documented three times, is normally a guitar-band highlife traditional.