Biography of Jacob Sam Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/biography-of-jacob-sam/ Your #1 Educational center Fri, 08 May 2020 07:26:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/african-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-AREC.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Biography of Jacob Sam Archives - African Research Consult https://african-research.com/tag/biography-of-jacob-sam/ 32 32 194781668 Legends of Ghanaian Highlife Music: Kwame Asare (Jacob Sam) (1903-1950s) https://african-research.com/research/music/legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwame-asare-jacob-sam-1903-1950s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwame-asare-jacob-sam-1903-1950s https://african-research.com/research/music/legends-of-ghanaian-highlife-music-kwame-asare-jacob-sam-1903-1950s/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 18:14:19 +0000 http://african-research.com/?p=1085 Kwame Asare (Jacob Sam) was born in 1903 in Cape Coast. The first highlife guitarist was taught the guitar by a Kru Liberian seaman. His famous guitar style came from the two finger technique of playing the seprewa, a traditional harp-lute. Asare was trained as a goldsmith and he moved to Kumasi where he formed [...]

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