In the vibrant corridors of the global music industry, few events command the same magnetism as WOMEX — the World Music Expo.

Ebo Taylor became one of Ghana’s major prolific musicians in the 1950s and ’60s, making his signature Ghanaian highlife that influenced the father of afrobeat, Fela Kuti. As highlife and afrobeat ...

More than a decade after defining Banku Music, Mr Eazi returns with Maison Rouge,  a seven-track EP that blends nostalgia, ...

Emmanuel Tettey Mensah, a.k.a E. T. Mensah (31 May 1919 – 19 July 1996) Born in Ussher Town, Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana). He had his early education at the Government School, Accra, where at the age of ...

WASHINGTON — Daddy Lumba, the Ghanaian highlife singer frequently ranked as the West African nation's greatest musical artist, died Saturday, after suffering a "short illness", according to the artist ...

Renowned Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, and producer, Obiba Sly Collins, has proposed that music stakeholders cultivate a passion for the highlife genre in order to inspire many musicians to ...

In Ghana, the '70s was a time of political repression, high inflation, and funky pop music. Among the musicians working the clubs in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, was a young British emigre named John ...

This two-disc retrospective touches on several phases of Ghanaian vocalist Pat Thomas’ career, pulling highlife, swing jazz, Afrobeat, psychedelic rock, reggae, funk, and disco into his joyful orbit.

THE Ghanaian music industry has seen its fair share of dynamic groups rise and fall — from Praye, Dobble, Ruff N Smooth, ...

Internationally acclaimed Ghanaian musician Kwame Yeboah has declared that highlife music is dead in Ghana, disputing claims that the genre still thrives through modern variations. Speaking to Kwame ...

Ebo Taylor became one of Ghana’s major prolific musicians in the 1950s and ‘60s, making his signature Ghanaian highlife that influenced the father of afrobeat, Fela Kuti. As highlife and afrobeat ...