Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Upenyu hwepamusoro inziyo dzokuimba dzokuWest Africa idzo dzakaumba muGhana mukuvamba kwezana ramakore rechimakumi maviri, dzichikumbanira magamuchidzanwa echiAkan namagamuchidzanwa eorchid kuzviridzwa zvokuMadokero zvedhanzi. Rakava rimwe renziyo dzakakurumbira zvikuru dzenharaunda yacho ndokuumba zhinji dzeyakatevera.
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.
Vagadziri vemifananidzo Vanoshamisa
Boka rechikwata cheGhana raiwanzodana mambo kuti weupenyu hukuru, huri pakati penguva yahwo yokutamba.
Kwarinogara
Uko ava vanyori vemifananidzo vanobva
69 Highlife Vanodhirowa mifananidzo vari pana TimTim.Live, uye 69 Vamwe vavo vane taundi rokumusha kwavo. Pano ndipo pavanobva.
Nyika
- Ghana30
- Nigeria24
- United Kingdom6
- United States3
- Benin2
- Haiti1
- Lithuania1
- Sao Tome naPrincipe1
- Sierra Leone1
Maguta nenzvimbo
- Lagos (city), Nigeria7
- Accra, Ghana4
- London, United Kingdom4
- Kumasi, Ghana3
- Abia State, Nigeria2
- Akim Oda, Ghana2
- Ashanti, Ghana2
- Ebonyi State, Nigeria2
- Edo State, Nigeria2
- Enugu State, Nigeria2
- Lagos (state), Nigeria2
- Western, Ghana2
Vamwe vavanyori vemifananidzo
- Adekunle GoldLagos
- Aralola OlamuyiwaLagos
- Ibibio Sound MachineUnited Kingdom
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- KulioNigeria
- Orlando OwohLagos
- Yemi AladeNigeria
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezGhana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorGhana
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyGhana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- KharismaLagos
- MarijataGhana
- Orlando JuliusIlesa
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
- África NegraSao Tome naPrincipe
Mibvunzo & Mhinduro
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.