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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]
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.
Afrobeats, not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing, is an umbrella term to describe popular music from West Africa and the diaspora [1] [2] that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s.
Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980–93 is a compilation album released by Soundway Records on 10 May 2024. The compilation collects highlife , a style of music from Ghana , which underwent a shift to more electronic styles in the 1980s.
In 1972, Nze Dan Orji, and Raphael Amarabem formed the Peacocks International Band. The band’s first single, “Sambola Mama,” was the first truly popular Bongo music. It would go on to sell 150,000 copies in Ghana, and more than double that amount in Nigeria. The 1970s and ‘80s marked the strongest periods in the trajectory of Bongo ...
African High Life is the debut album by Nigerian drummer and percussionist Solomon Ilori, recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label. [1] The album was reissued on CD in 2006 with three bonus tracks recorded at a later session.
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 ...
Their style of music is known as West African Highlife music. [2] ... Highlife was taken out of Ghana to Nigeria by E.T Mensah and Cape Coast Sugar Babies in the ...