Arts + Culture
Kose Kose, Iron Boy and the Apollo High Kings: Amakye Dede, the highlife king of the 1980s and 1990s
Amakye Dede, born on 5 January 1958 and known as Iron Boy, formed his band the Apollo High…
Ghanaian highlife
Arts + Culture
Ebo Taylor made his first international album at 74 and died at 90: the Saltpond guitarist who bridged highlife and Afrobeat
Ebo Taylor, the Ghanaian guitarist, composer and arranger who blended highlife with Afrobeat, was born on 6 January…
Arts + Culture
Ghana’s Golden Voice of Africa got a second career at Glastonbury: Pat Thomas and the Kwashibu Area Band
Pat Thomas, known as the Golden Voice of Africa, became a highlife star in Ghana in the 1970s…
Arts + Culture
C.K. Mann, the Takoradi bandleader who made Fante highlife sound like the sea
C.K. Mann, born in Cape Coast and based in Takoradi, led the Carousel 7 and other bands that…