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    Highlife is a genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 1900s and incorporated traditional West African musical elements with Western instruments. It later spread to other West African countries and is now popular in Nigeria as well. Highlife is characterized by horns and multiple guitars and has subgenres like Igbo highlife. The document provides details on the history and characteristics of highlife as well as lists of notable artists in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

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    Highlife is a genre of music that originated in Ghana in the early 1900s and incorporated traditional West African musical elements with Western instruments. It later spread to other West African countries and is now popular in Nigeria as well. Highlife is characterized by horns and multiple guitars and has subgenres like Igbo highlife. The document provides details on the history and characteristics of highlife as well as lists of notable artists in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

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    Highlife

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    For other uses, see High life (disambiguation).

    Highlife

    Stylistic origins

    Cultural origins

    Typical instruments

    Afro-pop

    African music

    Palm-wine music

    1900s (decade), Ghana

    Guitar

    horns

    vocal

    Subgenres
    Igbo highlife Joromi
    Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and
    incorporated the traditional harmonic 9th, as well as melodic and the main rhythmic structures in
    traditional Akan music, and married them with Western instruments. Highlife was associated
    with the local African aristocracy during the colonial period. By 1930s, Highlife spread to Sierra
    Leone, Liberia, Gambia and Nigeria via Ghanaian workers, amongst other West African
    countries, where the music is now very popular.
    Highlife is characterised by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band. Recently it has
    acquired an uptempo, synth-driven sound (see Daddy Lumba). Igbo highlife and Joromi are
    subgenres.[1][2][3]
    This arpeggiated highlife guitar part is modeled after an Afro-Cuban guajeo.[4] The pattern of
    attack-points is nearly identical to the 3-2 clave motif guajeo as shown below. The bell pattern
    known in Cuba as clave is indigenous to Ghana and Nigeria, and is used in highlife.[5]

    Top: clave. Bottom highlife guitar part.

    Contents

    1 Artists
    o 1.1 Ghana
    o 1.2 Nigeria
    o 1.3 Sierra Leone

    2 Highlife in jazz

    3 References

    Artists
    Artists who perform the Highlife genre include:

    Ghana

    Ramblers Dance Band

    Blackbeat of Ghana

    Broadway Dance Band

    Uhuru Dance Band

    A. B. Crentsil

    Adomako Nyamekye

    African Brothers International Band

    Alex Konadu

    Alhaji K. Frimpong

    Amakye Dede

    Atakora Manu

    Ben Brako

    Bessa Simons

    Charles Amoah

    Dr Aseibu Amanfi

    Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings

    Daasebre Gyamena

    Daddy Lumba

    E. T. Mensah

    Joe Mensah

    Ebo Taylor

    George Darko

    King Bruce

    Kofi B

    Koo Nimo

    Kwaa Mensa

    Kwadwo Akwaboah Jr

    Kyeremateng Stars

    Marriott International band

    Nana Acheampong

    Nana Fynn

    Mohammed Seidu

    Nana Kwame Ampadu

    Nana Tuffuor

    Oheneba Kissi

    Osibisa

    Paa Kow

    Paapa Yankson

    Pat Thomas(Musician)

    Pozo Hayes

    Rex Omar

    Thomas Frimpong

    Nigeria

    Seagulls Band of Port Harcourt

    Bustic Bassey

    Celestine Ukwu

    Chief Peter Effiom

    Chief Inyang Nta Henshaw

    Fela Kuti in his first band, Koola Lobitos

    Flavour N'abania

    Sonny Okosuns

    Prince Nico Mbarga

    David Egbo

    Oliver De Coque

    Tunji Oyelana

    Victor Olaiya

    Victor Uwaifo

    Rex Lawson

    Mighty Prince & The Garden City International Band

    Bola Johnson

    Oriental Brothers International

    Solomon Ilori

    Dr Sir Warrior

    King Bruce

    Lungu Lungu

    Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe

    Bab Ken Okulolo

    Orlando Owoh

    Roy Chicago

    Tunde Nightingale-The one with the sonorous voice

    Adeolu Akinsanya

    Kayode Fashola

    Fatai Rolling Dollars

    Sierra Leone

    S. E. Rogie

    Highlife in jazz

    Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded a song called "High Life" on Rejoice (1981).

    Pierre Drge and his New Jungle Orchestra played in the highlife style, e.g. on Even the
    Moon Is Dancing (1985).

    Guitarist Sonny Sharrock had a song called "Highlife" on the album of the same name
    (1990).

    Craig Harris (trombone) had a song called "High Life" on the album F-Stops (1993)

    High Life is an album by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter that was released on Verve
    Records in 1995.

    Pianist Randy Weston recorded an album called Highlife in 1963, featuring compositions
    by West African musicians Bobby Benson ("Niger Mambo") and Guy Warren ("Mystery
    of Love").

    Marcus Miller (bassist, multi-instrumentalist and producer) recorded a song called


    "Hylife" from the album Afrodeezia released on March 17th 2015.

    References
    1.
    "Igbo Highlife Music". Pamela Stitch. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
    Oti, Sonny (2009). Highlife Music in West Africa. African Books Collective. ISBN 978978-8422-08-2.
    Davies, Carole Boyce (2008). Encyclopedia of the African diaspora: Origins,
    experiences, and culture. ABC-CLIO, Inc. p. 525. ISBN 978-1-85109-700-5.
    Eyre, Banning (2006: 9). "Highlife guitar example" Africa: Your Passport to a New
    World of Music. Alfred Pub. ISBN 0-7390-2474-4
    1.

    Pealosa, David (2010: 247). The Clave Matrix; Afro-Cuban Rhythm: Its
    Principles and African Origins. Redway, CA: Bembe Inc. ISBN 1-886502-80-3.
    [show]

    Genres of African popular music


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