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Playlist Live was an annual convention held in Orlando, Florida, and Washington D.C., primarily for YouTube and TikTok content creators. The convention was held annually since 2010. [ 1 ] The convention was also held in the New York tri-state area as well as Orlando and Washington.
Highlife is characterized by jazzy horns and guitars which lead the band and its use of the two-finger plucking guitar style that is typical of African music. Recently it has acquired an uptempo, synth-driven sound. [2] [3] Highlife gained popularity and the genre spread throughout West African regions.
Highlife (full title Music from the New African Nations featuring the Highlife) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Colpix label. [2]
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Owoh went on to form Dr. Orlando Owoh and his Omimah Band in 1960, and over a musical career of forty years became one of the leading proponents of highlife music. With bands such as the Omimah Band and later the Young Kenneries and the African Kenneries International, Owoh remained popular in Nigeria, even as tastes moved to the newer jùjú ...
This is a list of notable Nigerian highlife musicians arranged in alphabetical order. There are several other genres of music in Nigeria these include Ikorodo , Igbo gospel , Owerri Bongo , Fuji music , Ekpili Jùjú music , Apala , Were music and Highlife .
The genre is primarily guitar-based music, with a rare characteristic blend of horns and vocal rhythms. [1] [2] Igbo highlife lyrics are sung mostly in Igbo with occasional infusion of Pidgin English. [3] One of the most influential composers and performers of the music is Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe whose career spanned over 40 years. Osadebe ...
Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe // ⓘ (March 17, 1936 [1] – May 11, 2007), [2] often referred to as just Osita Osadebe, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician from Atani.During his career spanning over four decades, he became one of the best known musicians of Igbo highlife.