Daddy Lumba

Daddy Lumba

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...

E.T. Mensah

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...

John Collins

male
John Collins is since 1969 active in West African popular music as a musician, bandleader, studio-owner, writer and scientist. He is currently head...

George Darko

male
George Darko is a revolutionary in Ghanaian highlife music, changing its landscape. He introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit "Ako ti...
Rex Lawson

Rex Lawson

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...
Ebenezer Obey

Ebenezer Obey

male
Ebenezer Obey (born 1942), nicknamed the "Chief Commander," is a Nigerian pop musician. Obey, whose real names are Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo...
Amakye Dede

Amakye Dede

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...
Prince Nico Mbarga

Prince Nico Mbarga

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,...

King Sunny Adé

male, 63 years old
King Sunny Adé is a popular performer of Nigerian Jùjú music. With his band, "King Sunny Ade and His African Beats", King Sunny Ade became an int...
S. E. Rogie

S. E. Rogie

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...