Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Bida haltu ta un música di baile na West Africa cu a haña forma na Ghana na principio di siglo 20, i cu a uni cu tradicionnan Akanonoc i avenco na instrumentonan occidental di baile. El a bira un dje música popular dje region i a forma gran parti di loke a sigui.
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.
artistanan Cu No Ta Interesá
Hopi bes e banda di rock tabata yama e rey di bida haltu, central pa su era di baile.
Kaminda e ta biba
Di unda e artistanan aki ta bini
69 Highlife artista ta riba TimTim.Live, i 69 Di nan tin un stad público. Aki ta caminda nan ta bini.
Paisnan
Stat i lugá
- laga nos wak kon el a hasi esei (city), Nigeria7
- Accra, Ghana4
- London, Reino Uní4
- Kumasi, Ghana3
- Abia State, Nigeria2
- Akim Oda, Ghana2
- Ashanti, Ghana2
- Ebonyi State, Nigeria2
- Edo State, Nigeria2
- Enugu State, Nigeria2
- laga nos wak kon el a hasi esei (state), Nigeria2
- Western, Ghana2
Algun dje artistanan
- Adekunle Goldlaga nos wak kon el a hasi esei
- Aralola Olamuyiwalaga nos wak kon el a hasi esei
- Ibibio Sound MachineReino Uní
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- KulioNigeria
- Orlando Owohlaga nos wak kon el a hasi esei
- Yemi AladeNigeria
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezGhana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorCape Coast
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyGhana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- Kharismalaga nos wak kon el a hasi esei
- MarijataGhana
- Orlando JuliusEkiti State
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
- África NegraSao Tome i Principe
Pregunta & Contesta
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.