Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
L'altalife es una musica de dans de l'Africa Occidental que pren de forma a Ghana al començament del sègle XX, s'unissent a las tradicions melodicas e ritmicas d'Akan als instruments de banda de dansa occidentala. Venguèt una de las musicas popularas fondacionalas de la region e forma fòrça de çò que seguèt.
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.
Artistas
Lo líder de bandes gananas nomena sovent lo rei de la vida nauta, centrala a l'èra de sa banda de dans.
On viu
De on ven aquestes artistes
69 Highlife artists are on TimTim.Live, and 69 d'aquells a una vila publica. Aquí es d'on venon.
Païs
- Gana30
- Nigèria24
- Reialme Unit6
- Estats Units d' America3
- Benin2
- Aïtí1
- Lituània1
- Sao Tomé e Principe1
- Sierra Leone1
Ciadas e decimalas
- Kanufrance. kgm (city), Nigèria7
- Accra, Gana4
- London, Reialme Unit4
- Kumasi, Gana3
- Abia State, Nigèria2
- Akim Oda, Gana2
- Ashanti, Gana2
- Ebonyi State, Nigèria2
- Edo State, Nigèria2
- Enugu State, Nigèria2
- Kanufrance. kgm (state), Nigèria2
- Western, Gana2
Unes artistas
- Adekunle GoldKanufrance. kgm
- Aralola OlamuyiwaKanufrance. kgm
- Ibibio Sound MachineReialme Unit
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- KulioNigèria
- Orlando OwohKanufrance. kgm
- Yemi AladeNigèria
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezGana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorGana
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyGana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- KharismaKanufrance. kgm
- MarijataGana
- Orlando JuliusIlesa
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
- África NegraSao Tomé e Principe
Responsas
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.