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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.
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 .
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]
Owerri Bongo (Bongo/Igbo Bongo) is a style of Igbo highlife music that has its origins in the Igbo people of Owerri and spread around all Imo State, which is in eastern Nigeria. The musical style is a sub-genre of Igbo highlife music. [1] Unlike Igbo highlife, which is known for its brass horns and often somber feel.
Victor Abimbola Olaiya OON, (31 December 1930 – 12 February 2020), also known as Dr Victor Olaiya, was a Nigerian trumpeter who played in the highlife style. Though famous in Nigeria during the 1950s and early 1960s, Olaiya received little recognition outside his native country.
He succeeded in completely transforming highlife into the call-and-response pattern of African music. [4] Following the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s, the massive exodus of the eastern peoples of Nigeria (especially the Igbo) out of western Nigeria had caused the death of the Highlife's prominence in the then capital, Lagos. During the ...
Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade (born 19 July 1991), [2] better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record executive.He is the pioneer of Banku music, a fusion of sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. [3]
Bright Chimezie (born 1 October 1960) [1] is a Nigerian musician known for his influential music style called Zigima Sound. Hailing from Abia State, Nigeria, Chimezie rose to fame in the early 1980s [2] with his unique blend of traditional Nigerian music, Igbo highlife, and chanted vocals.