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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.
19 October - Nigerian singer Teni wins the "Best Pop Single" award at The Headies 2019, for "Case". [14] 23 November - Joeboy wins the "Best Artiste in African Pop" award at the All Africa Music Awards. [15] 3 December - Kabza De Small is named by Spotify as the most-streamed South African artist of 2019. [16]
Osibisa has been credited with introducing African music to European and North American audiences [10] with their fusion of African and Western music styles. [11] The band's style encompasses elements of rock, progressive rock, acid rock, Latin, jazz, afro-funk, jazz fusion, soul, highlife, reggae, calypso and pop.
In the late 1950s he was active in the influential highlife bands the Stargazers and the Broadway Dance Band. In 1962, Taylor took his group, the Black Star Highlife Band, to London. In London, Taylor collaborated with Nigerian afrobeat Initiator Fela Kuti as well as other African musicians in Britain at the time. [2] [3]
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Weston had traveled to Africa for the first time in 1961 for a series of concerts in Lagos, Nigeria, sponsored by the American Society of African Culture, and the album is inspired by the music of the African continent, in particular the highlife genre of West Africa. [3]
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 .