Highlife
Ghana's century-old dance band sound
Ukuphila okuphakeme kuwumculo womdanso waseNtshonalanga Afrika owakheka eGhana ekuqaleni kwekhulu lamashumi amabili leminyaka, uhlanganisa amasiko ama - Akan nama - melodic nezigqi zokudansa nezinsimbi zomdanso zaseNtshonalanga. Yaba omunye womculo othandwayo walendawo futhi yalolonga okuningi kwalokho okwalandela.
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.
Abadwebi abaziwayo
Umholi weqembu laseGhana wayevame ukubiza inkosi yokuphila okuphakeme, eyinhloko yenkathi yayo yokudansa.
Lapho ihlala khona
Lapho lemidwebo ivela khona
69 Highlife Abadwebi bangabangu - TimTim.Live, futhi 69 idolobha lazo linedolobha lomphakathi. Yilapha lapho zivela khona.
Amazwe
- IGhana30
- i-Nigeria24
- I - United Kingdom6
- United States3
- i-Benin2
- i-Haiti1
- i-Lithuania1
- Sao Tome noPrincipe1
- i-Sierra Leone1
Amadolobha Nezindawo
- ILagos (city), i-Nigeria7
- Accra, IGhana4
- London, I - United Kingdom4
- Kumasi, IGhana3
- Abia State, i-Nigeria2
- Akim Oda, IGhana2
- Ashanti, IGhana2
- Ebonyi State, i-Nigeria2
- Edo State, i-Nigeria2
- Enugu State, i-Nigeria2
- ILagos (state), i-Nigeria2
- Western, IGhana2
Ezinye zabadwebi
- Adekunle GoldILagos
- Aralola OlamuyiwaILagos
- Ibibio Sound MachineI - United Kingdom
- KaletaPorto-Novo
- Kulioi-Nigeria
- Orlando OwohILagos
- Yemi Aladei-Nigeria
- Zak AbelLondon
- Holy BoyEbonyi State
- MugeezIGhana
- OsibisaLondon
- Ebo TaylorIGhana
- GyakieKumasi
- Gyedu-Blay AmbolleyIGhana
- Huw Marc BennettLondon
- Uwa DivaEdo State
- KharismaILagos
- MarijataIGhana
- Orlando JuliusIlesa
- Pat ThomasAshanti
- Benny MorganAkim Oda
- CEEDI3GHAccra
- Randy WestonBrooklyn
- África NegraSao Tome noPrincipe
Imibuzo Nezimpendulo
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.