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A.B. Crentsil

As business lead vocalist from the Lovely Talks, the home band in the Chat of the city Resort in the seaside town of Tema, A.B. Crentsil ruled over Ghana’s highlife picture in the ’70s. Accompanied by such potential Ghanaian celebrity vocalists Jewel Ackah and Pat Thomas, and guitarist Eric Agyeman, …

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Mohammed Malcolm Ben

b. 5 Feb 1946, Moseaso, Ghana. Most widely known outdoors Western world Africa for the acclaimed 1983 single album African Sense, also for the debut launch by British-based African music professional label Stern’s, the drummer and vocalist Ben currently boasted a recognized track record like a maker and arranger in …

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Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas is a Ghanian vocalist and songwriter famed for his function in the highlife rings of Ebo Taylor and his personal recordings of Afrobeat and Afro-pop. Created in 1951 in Agona, in the Ashanti Area, Thomas was created with music nearly actually in his DNA: his dad was a …

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Konimo

b. Daniel Amponsah, 1935, Fuase, Ghana. Delivered in the Ashante area of Ghana, vocalist and acoustic guitarist Konimo provides devoted his profession to protecting Ghana’s rich traditions of traditional guitar-based music. His schooling began young from his dad, who was simply a trumpeter and guitarist, and his mom, who was …

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King Bruce

b. 3 June 1922, Jamestown, Ghana, d. 12 Sept 1997. Bruce initial became thinking about music while learning accountancy in London in the past due 40s. He trained himself to try out the trumpet and tenor saxophone, and upon time for Ghana in 1951, he worked well like a civil …

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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 …

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Guy Warren

Guy Warren, also called Kofi Ghanaba, was among the initial African music artists to exert an impact on globe music — a vibrant achievement to get a musician who was simply so far away before his own period and viewers that his existence was barely perceived by the majority of …

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George Darko

The music of West Africa is fused with influences of Western pop music and rock by Ghana-born guitarist and vocalist George Darko. Located in Germany, because the early-1980s, Darko offers continued to create a contemporary level of sensitivity to his tradition-rooted music since time for reside in his homeland of …

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R.E.U.B.

Not really beholden to any kind of coast’s design or audio, rapper/maker R.E.U.B. (Actual Business owner in the Underground Business of Hip-Hop) is usually more worried about injecting self-awareness and artistry into hip-hop music. Given birth to November 22, 1980, in Accra, Ghana, R.E.U.B. (actual name Reubin Delle) fled along …

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E.K. Nyame

b. Dec 1927, Kwahu, Ghana, d. 19 January, 1977, Accra, Ghana. Along with E.T. Mensah, Nyame was among the godfathers of contemporary Ghanaian highlife music. His particular contribution was the combining of rural ‘hand wines’ music typically performed with a vocalist associated himself on classical guitar, and performed on street …

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