Gerald Bogle Levy better known as Bogle and also as Bogle Dancer, Mr Bogle, Father Bogle and Mr Wacky, was a Jamaican dancehall star, dancer and choreographer. Beenie Man (one of the dancehall legends from the early 90s) called Bogle “the greatest dancer of all time” and recognised as “part of the foundation and as […]
Category Archives: MUSIC
Research on African Music
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Jan
Jan
Rev. Bro Pius Kweku Agyeman, SVD, is a prolific Catholic Composer and a Historian with Vast Knowledge in Ghanaian Culture. The SVD attached to his name means he is a member of the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D.), a Roman Catholic religious organization, composed of priests and brothers, founded in 1875 at Steyl, Netherlands […]
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Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 30, 1964, and at a young age, she moved with her family to Connecticut She was raised by her mother, who recognized her love of music from a young age, and despite not having much money, bought her a ukulele when she was just three. Musician […]
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The talented Nigerian rapper died on 22nd April 2010 (2020 marked a decade since he died) after he was involved in a ghastly freakish motor accident. The accident occurred at early hours of 14 April 2010 after a collision with a trailer conveying stationary in front of Alakara Police Station, off Agege motor road, Mushin, […]
MUSIC, TRADITIONAL RELIGION
The Winneba Fancy Dress Festival: A Colonial Tradition That Has Become an Indigenous Culture
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Dec
The Halloween-like fancy dress New Year Festival that began over a century ago in Ghana as a mocking satire of colonial life is still thriving today, with hundreds of people dressing up and wearing bizarre expressive masks! According to African-research.com Ghanaians in Winneba began forming masquerade groups in the 1920’s to Poke Fun at the Life and […]
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The historic Ashanti occupied an area of about 24,379 square miles, about 9,700of which are in the contemporary Ashanti Region of the Republic of Ghana (the formerGold Coast). The Ashanti created an independent kingdom which flourished from the 17th century until their conflict with the British at the end of the 19th century. Through the […]
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The Pan African Orchestra was founded in 1988 by the late Nana Danso Abiam to develop a new style of orchestral music that explores the classical foundations of African music, utilizing African traditional and neo-traditional sound sources and concepts as a framework point of reference. The Instrumentation of the Orchestra consists of: 16 atenteben flutes, […]
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In 1982, Yellowman was diagnosed with skin cancer, and was told that he only had three more years to live. However, this prognosis proved to be inaccurate, and after several surgeries Yellowman was able to continue his career. The cancer went into apparent remission during this time! In an interview with a local tabloid, The […]
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Judy Boucher was born in 1964 at St. Vincent in the Caribbean. She is a reggae and R&B singer. Her singing career actually started in 1970! At age 16! After being in her brother’s band Judy Jack and the Beanstalk, she later became a solo artist. In 1985, Felix Da Silva, a local songwriter, wanted […]
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Addaquay was born on 17th of September 1985 in Kumasi. He attended both UST primary & JSS and continued his education in Mfantsipim school, Cape Coast. He became the school’s organist for 3 years. There he had music training under Mr. Peter Lyte Koomson the former district chief executive at Ajumako Enyan Essiam District Assembly […]
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His Musicial journey started in 2018, when Divine Ikubor (Rema) recorded a viral freestyle over “Gucci Gang,” a local hit by Nigerian artist D’Prince. Sitting in a car, wearing a maroon jacket, the self-proclaimed “modern-world David” delivered a sequence of rapid bars, punctuated by spurts of melody, that’s since been viewed nearly 500,000 times on […]
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The Sureway Assemblies of God Church Choir has been the main ‘face’ of the Sureway Assemblies of God Church located at Windy Hills, Kasoa in the Central Region of Ghana. The church was established in 1999 by an annointed man of God called Rev. Dr. Reginald Daniel Boateng Who was gifted in music. He was […]
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Samuel Ampah aka KAHPUN (Heart of African Reggae/Dancehall) is an award winning multi-talented artiste & song writer born and raised in Cape coast, Ghana on June 6, 1989. He had passion for arts at a tender age and enjoyed writing poems and lyrics as his hobby during school days Kahpun completed University Junior High School […]
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Justice Amoah popularly known as Patapaa or Patappizi (Papizo), was born and bred in Swedru Ghana. According to the One Corner crooner, he was working at a drinking spot before he became popular. According to him, the spot is owned by his mother, and he was ordering a helping hand to the mom. In his […]
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Nana Kwame Ampadu I was born at Obo Kwahu on March 31st, 1945 and was named Kwame Ampadu after his father, Opanin Kwame Ampadu, the then head of the Asona Clan of Obo Kwahu in the Eastern Region of Ghana, and madam Mercy Afua Ntiriwaa, a devouted presbyter also of Obo Kwahu. Little Ampadu had […]
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Moses Kwaku Oppong, the leader of Kakaiku’s Guitar Band, was born on 2nd October, 1916 at Aboso in the Western Region. “Kak-Ku” became his nickname at school. Around 1934, Kwaku was very good on the guitar and was playing at parties, wake-keepings and funeral obsequies. He founded the “Kakaiku’s Band on August 1, 1954, giving […]
BIOGRAPHY, MUSIC, RESEARCH
Legends of Ghanaian Highlife Music: Nana Kwame Ampadu (African Brothers) (1945-)
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May
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Nana Kwame Ampadu was born at Obo Kwahu on March 31st 1945. In 1967, he was leading the African Brothers Band in Kumasi under the sponsorship of the Ambassador Gardens Hotel. The African Brothers band’s first big success was the song “Ebi Tie Ye” (Some Live Well) released in 1967, which they later made into […]
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May
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Emmanuel Kofi Nyame was born on 24th December, 1927 at Kwahu Dukomang. At Adabraka Roman Catholic School in Accra, he was a drum major (leader of the school fife band), a choir boy as well as a member of the select church choir at Accra’s first Catholic Church. When he inherited a guitar belonging to […]
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May
May
Kwaa Mensah was born in Lagos (Nigeria) in September, 1920. He was brought up in Cape Coast. His uncle was the first highlife guitarist in Ghana, Jacob Sam, “Sam” or Kwame Asare, a goldsmith from Cape Coast. Sam taught Kwaa the guitar, and during the 1930’s, Kwaa played in a Cape-Coast adaha band, adaha being […]
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May
Kwabena Onyina was born on March 15, 1932, at Agona Ashanti. He learned how to play guitar and at 16, he formed a trio called the Cooler’s Band. In 1953, Mr Daniel Kyei took over the management of the group and named it Onyina’s Guitar Band. Onyina earned the title “King” in 1961, when he […]
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