Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Bophelo bo phahameng ke ' mino oa tantši oa Afrika Bophirimela o ileng oa qala Ghana mathoasong a lekholo la mashome a mabeli la lilemo, o neng o kopanya lineano tsa Ma - Quaker le meetlo ea boitšoaro bo hlephileng ' minong oa ho tantša oa Bophirimela. E ile ea fetoha e ' ngoe ea lipina tse ratoang haholo sebakeng seo ' me ea bōpa boholo ba se ileng sa latela.
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.
Bataki ba mesebetsi e entsoeng ka bokhabane
Hangata sehlopha sa ' mino oa rock se ne se bitsa morena oa bophelo bo phahameng, bohareng ba mehla ea sona ea tantši.
Moo e lulang teng
Moo baetsi bana ba litšoantšo ba tsoang teng
69 Highlife artists are on TimTim.Live, and 69 ea bona e na le motse oa sechaba. Mona ke moo ba tsoang teng.
Linaha
Metse e meholo le libaka
- 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
Tse ling tsa baetsi ba litšoantšo
- 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 le Kae
Lipotso & Likarabo
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.