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Biography of Moses Osei Kwarteng

Moses Osei Kwarteng better known as Moses OK, is a Ghanaian Gospel musician, songwriter and an author. Awards and nominations Moses OK was nominated for best male vocal performance and New gospel artist of the year 2013.

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Biography of Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. The first musician from Ghana and the world to formally incorporate rap forms into local highlife rhythms, Ambolley created the musical genre Simigwa. Career Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was rather unknown outside of West Africa until Soundway Records included his seminal Simigwa-Do, which Ambolley released in 1973, …

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Biography of Akosua Agyapong

Akosua Agyapong (also spelled Agyepong; born 17 November 1959), is a Ghanaian female highlife singer and television personality. She was honored by the organizers of 3Music Awards for her achievement in the entertainment industry in Ghana. Early life Akosua Agyapong was born on 17 November 1959 in Accra, Ghana, to Asante and Akyem parents. She had her secondary education at the Holy Child High School in Cape Coast. Her mother …

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Biography of Highlife Musician, Kwadwo Akwaboah Senior

Kwadwo Akwaboah (died 16 May 2023), popularly known as Akwaboah Senior (Snr.), was a Ghanaian singer-songwriter and record producer from Mampong Beposo. He was known for the popular song ”Awerɛkyekyerɛ”, ”Hini Me” and many others. He was the father of the renowned Ghanaian musician Akwaboah Jnr. Life and career Akwaboah Snr. was born in Mampong Beposo. Akwaboah …

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Biography of Akwasi Ampofo Adjei

Akwasi Ampofo Adjei (1947–2004) also known as Mr A.A.A was a Ghanaian highlife musician. Career He was a teacher by profession but because of the influence that music had on his life he abandoned teaching profession, and went into the music industry. He recorded his first song, a single called Obiara nfan’adwene mbra which literally …

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Biography of Asabea Cropper

Asabea Cropper (also known as Queen Asabea) is a Ghanaian female high-life singer and saxophonist. She is known for her ‘love and passion’ for headgear styles like the Kilimanjaro style. She claimed her grandmother and mother taught her in 1975. During the URTNA Awards, she was honored as the ’Queen of Highlife Music’. Career She learnt how …

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Biography of the first Ghanaian highlife recording Artiste and guitarist, Jacob Sam

Kwame Asare, best known as Jacob Sam (1903 on the Cape Coast – 1950s), was the first to record Ghanaian highlife music and was the first highlife guita. Life and career He was a trained goldsmith. He moved to Kumasi and formed the Kumasi Trio. He was taught guitar by a Liberian seaman. He is known to be the first Ghanaian …

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Biography of highlife Musician, Awurama Badu

Awurama Badu (Ewurama Badu) was a Ghanaian highlife musician born in 1945 and from Banko in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti Region. Popularly known for her stage performance and hit songs, she was a gifted and talented Highlife musician who had a breakthrough when the music industry was largely dominated by males with few females …

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Biography of Ekow Zagla, ‘Bak Tye’

Ekow Zagla (1980 – 28 July 2019), also known as Bak Tye or Baka Tee, was a Ghanaian hiplife artist and rapper. Career He was known for his hit track in 2004 known as Yenpie featuring Samini. In his prime he was featured by Mzbel in her song Awaso Me and Kofi Nti among many others. Death He …

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Biography of Ben Brako

Bernard George Kobena Brako, known professionally as Ben Brako (born 20 May 1952), is a Ghanaian highlife artiste. He rose to prominence in the mid- to late 1980s, with the release of his first solo studio album, Baya, which he also produced and wrote, in 1987. Early life Brako was born on 20 May 1952 in Accra, Ghana, …

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