Wiyaala & The Yaga Yagas - Scorpion (Kuli Wa Yiri)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbHNwk5b9o
WIYAALA means “the doer” in her local Sissala language, from Funsi in the Upper West Region of Ghana.
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Y’akoto – Diamonds
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yakoto-diamonds/
Folk, Pop and Soul with an Afro-approach.With her first album “Baby blues” (2012), Y’akoto, singer and songwriter, charted Top 20 in Germany. With her dark, expressive voice, she’s been compared to Jazz icons such as Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.
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DJ Katapila – Trotro
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dj-katapila-trotro/
DJ Katapila makes Ga traditional music using electronic sounds instead of live percussion to create his own kind of what he calls house music.
“They call me DJ Katapila because I am like a machine. The Caterpillar that digs a hole, creates a road.”
In the context of Ghana’s pop music landscape, Katapila’s music is […]
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PEDRO – Stuck On You (feat. Bryte)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pedro-stuck-on-you-bryte/
From the Lisbon global club scene, PEDRO (Pedro da Linha) teams up with Ghanaian MC Bryte for this infectious and dancefloor-ready ‘Stuck On You’.
Lisbon based PEDRO started making music when he was in school. Initially inspired by his older brother’s techno collection and the kizomba and kuduro he’d hear when he was hanging outside […]
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Wanlov the Kubolor – Veverita Feat. King Ayisoba
https://amf.didiermary.fr/wanlov-kubolor-veverita-king-ayisoba/
Puppet squirrels, Wanlov the Kubolor, King Ayisoba playing Kologo… what else do you need… Listen to Veverita (squirrel in Romanian)!
From album “Brown Card – African Gypsy”
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Lamisi – Let Us Clap
https://amf.didiermary.fr/lamisi-let-us-clap/
Lamisi — one of Ghana’s most popular artists and an activist for the rights of women and girls — has shared the second single from her new album “Let Us Clap” — a collaboration with innovative music producer and auteur Wanlov the Kubolor, which marks a radical reinvention of her sound. […]
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Pure Confusion by King Ayisoba
https://ayisoba.bandcamp.com/album/pure-confusion
To be released on September 4, 2026
Ebo Taylor & the Sweet Beans – Odofo Nyi Akyiri Biara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ebo-taylor-sweet-beans-odofo-nyi-akyiri-biara/
Ebo Taylor, here with the Sweet Beans (aka Marijata), one of the bands leading Highlife music in Ghana in the 70s.
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Pat Thomas & The Sweet Beans – Revolution
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pat-thomas-sweet-beans-revolution/
Ghanaian highlife master and “The Golden Voice Of Africa,” here’s Pat Thomas’ first full career retrospective, “Coming Home,” covering his career from his late ‘60s big band highlife recordings through to the “burger highlife” movement of the early ‘80s.
Growing up with music around him (“my uncle, [...]
#60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic #Reggae
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Blay Ambolley – Simi Rapp
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-ambolley-simi-rapp/
A major force in Afro-funk since the early 1970s, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is considered the godfather of Hiplife, transforming the Highlife genre by adding elements of Hiphop, Funk and Jazz, as can be seen in this amazing and influential “Simi Rapp”.
This song was originally released in 1996, as part of the album “Blay Ambolley – […]
Edited 156d ago
Jewel Ackah – Electric Hi-Life
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jewel-ackah-electric-hi-life/
Jewel Ackah is, for many Ghanians, synonymous with feelgood, old-school highlife dance music. Electric Hi-Life is a monument to old school brass-band highlife sound. […]
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King Ayisoba – Modern Ghanaians
https://amf.didiermary.fr/modern-ghanaians-king-ayisoba/
“Modern Ghanaians” by King Ayisoba is the fastest selling cassette by an artist from the Northern part of Ghana. The albums popularity started in Bolgatanga where the artist is from, but has spread through the other regions like harmattan bushfire. Singing in English, Twi, Frafra, King Ayisoba struck a chord with the Ghanaian audience and […]
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Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band – Gyae Su
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pat-thomas-kwashibu-area-band-gyae-su/
‘Gyae Su’ is a rearrangement of an older song, with a bass concept typical of the classic Kwa or Kumasi guitar bands. Ebo Taylor’s horn arrangements evoke the classic Afrofunk vibe that he originally made famous.The lyrics are as catchy as they are plaintive, with Thomas comforting the listener, “Don’t cry! Life has its ups […]
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Saka Acquaye
https://amf.didiermary.fr/saka-acquaye/
Saka Acquaye (1923 – 2007) was a Ghanaian painter, sculptor, textile designer, teacher, arts administrator, dramatist, composer and multi-instrumentalist.
He founded the African Ensemble while in the US and, as its leader, recorded an album under the ELEKTRA label. This group was made up of American musicians. He also put together a group known as […]
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Buari - Ku Ka Maria (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYOUNFFMPf0
Former athlete (silver & bronze medalist) who studied music in USA mid-60s.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/157218-Buari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidiku_Buari
K. Frimpong backed by Vis-A-Vis
https://amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-backed-vis-a-vis/
The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]
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K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda
https://amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cubanos-fiesta/
Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.
K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]
#80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
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King Ayisoba – Wicked Leaders
https://amf.didiermary.fr/king-ayisoba-wicked-leaders/
Wicked Leaders… African politicians beware! King Ayisoba is out there…
Kologo music from Ghana, North East Region, mainly in Frafra and in English, highly catchy that moves your soul as well as your feet.
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Dr. K. Gyasi’s Noble Kings – The Highlife Boss
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dr-gyasi-noble-kings-highlife-boss/
Highlife album released in 1975 on the Essiebons label, by Dr. K. Gyasi & his Noble Kings. Probably one of the best recorded Highlife there is from this period of time in Ghana. With Lead Vocals by Thomas Frimpong.
Thomas Frimpong (sometimes Frempong) was one of the most respected Highlife musicians Ghana has ever […]
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Burger Highlife
https://amf.didiermary.fr/burger-highlife/
The first ever compilations focussing on the phenomenon of “Burger Highlife”, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian airwaves during the 1980’s and beyond.
The 1970s had witnessed an increased Western airtime and physical presence in Ghana introducing funk, soul and disco sounds [...]
#80smusic #90smusic #AfroFunk #Compilation #Disco #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
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Essiebons Special 73-84
https://amf.didiermary.fr/essiebons-special-73-84/
In Ghana, few labels are as influential as Essiebons, the “Ghana Music Power House.” Founded by the producer and businessman Dick Essilfie-Bondzie, its catalog features sterling work from number of modern highlife legends.
For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie’s Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his [...]
#70smusic #80smusic #Compilation #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic
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Obo Addy (Oboade)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/obo-addy-oboade/
Obo Addy (January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer. He learned drumming at a very early age. He and his brothers drummed while his mother and sisters sang as his father, a priest and medicine man of the Ga people of southern Ghana, performed rituals.
When Addy was six, he […]
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African Brothers International Band
https://amf.didiermary.fr/african-brothers-international-band/
The debut album by Nana Kwame Ampadu’s legendary African Brothers International Band, originally released in Ghana in 1970. The band is an evolution of “African Brothers Dance Band (International)” that was famous in the ’60s.
Nana Ampadu of Ghana formed his African Brothers Band in 1963. During the ’70s, they became one of the more […]
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Marijata – No Condition Is Permanent
https://amf.didiermary.fr/marijata-no-condition-permanent/
Marijata was a group made up of three members – Kofi ‘Electric’ Addison on drums, Bob Fischian on organ and Nat Osmansu on guitar, hailing from Ghana. ‘This Is Marijata’ is the groups first LP; released originally on the Gapophone label – it is pure, rootsy, raw, driving African funk music of the highest order, […]
Thomas Frempong
https://amf.didiermary.fr/thomas-frempong/
Thomas Frempong has been a fixture in the Highlife scene for decades, playing with all the biggest bands in the country, including the famous Noble Kings of Dr. Gyasi, pioneers of Sikyi Highlife, which is the most common form of Highlife today, with the interplay between brass, organs and electric guitars. When this illustrious musician, […]
