- male, deceased (1997)
- Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 - 24 June, 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki,...
- male, 45 years old
- Daddy Lumba (born Charles Kwadwo Fosu on 29 September,1964) is a Ghanaian singer who is based in Cologne, Germany. In the early 1980s, he debuted...
- male, deceased (1996)
- E.T. Mensah (born 1919 in Accra; died 1996) was a Ghanaian Highlife musician. He began as a flautist with the Accra Orchestra, a schoolchildren...
- male
- Abrantie Amakye Dede is a Ghanaian musician, best-known for his work in the field of highlife and as the leader of the Super Apollo High Kings. He...
- male
- Sir Victor Uwaifo (born 1941) was a Nigerian musician, famous for his joromi music. (The 'Sir' was apocryphal). He is also famous for "Guitar Boy",...
- male
- George Darko is a revolutionary in Ghanaian highlife music, changing its landscape. He introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit "Ako ti...
- male, deceased (1969)
- Rex Jim Lawson (c.1930 - 1969), known as Cardinal Rex, was a singer, trumpeter and bandleader from Kalabari (Ijaw), Nigeria. One of the best-known...
- male
- Ezebuiro Obinna (died June 2, 1999), the legendary Ultimate Dr. Sir Warrior, was the leader of the famous Oriental Brothers International Band...
- male
- S. E. Rogie (born Sooliman Rogers) was a highlife and palm wine guitarist and singer from Sierra Leone. He was born in the 1940s and began...
- male, 83 years old
- Randy Weston (b. Brooklyn, New York, April 6, 1926) is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage. Randy Weston has had a...
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