Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Highlife est a musica dansis occidentalis Africae quae in Ghana in saeculo vicesimo initio, ad Akan melodicum et ritmicam traditionem ad instrumenta dansis-banda occidentalis. Fuitque unus de fundamentis musicibus popularis regionis et formavit multa sequentium.
Origin & history
Highlife developed in coastal Ghana in the early 1900s, as brass-band and dance-band instrumentation met local Akan musical traditions.
It spread to Nigeria and across West Africa through the mid-century, and its guitar styles and horn arrangements run underneath a great deal of later West African popular music, Afrobeats included.
Artistae invenientes
Ghanae exercitus saepe rex altissimae vocabatur, central ad tempus dantis-bandis.
Ubi vivet
De quo hii artisti veniunt
71 Highlife artista sunt in TimTim.Live et 70 et ex eis patria publica habent Ibi est unde veniunt.
Patria
Civitatibus et locis
- Lagos (city), Nigeria7
- Accra, Ghana4
- London, Regno Unito4
- Kumasi, Ghana3
- Abia State, Nigeria2
- Akim Oda, Ghana2
- Ashanti, Ghana2
- Ebonyi State, Nigeria2
- Edo State, Nigeria2
- Enugu State, Nigeria2
- Lagos (state), Nigeria2
- Western, Ghana2
Artistarum
- Adekunle GoldLagos
- Aralola OlamuyiwaLagos
- Ibibio Sound MachineRegno Unito
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- KulioNigeria
- Orlando OwohOsogbo
- Yemi AladeNigeria
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezGhana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorCape Coast
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyGhana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- KharismaLagos
- KharismaNigeria
- MarijataGhana
- Orlando JuliusIlesa
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
Responsibilia
What is highlife?+
Highlife is a West African dance music that began in Ghana in the early twentieth century, combining Akan musical traditions with Western dance-band instruments.
Where did highlife originate?+
In coastal Ghana, spreading from there to Nigeria and across West Africa.
How old is highlife?+
It dates to the early 1900s, which makes it one of the oldest continuously played popular music genres in West Africa.