New Music From Ghana on Calabash Music

African Reggae

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Osei Tutu

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Grasping the roots of Highlife music, 'Awakening' is truly a festival of swaying rhythms and enticing melodies.

Highlife Music from Ghana

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This compilation features several gospel highlife bands, including the opening track by the Genesis Gospel Singers with a simple but catchy melody sung by a plaintive female chorus The Baptist Disciple singers praise "Yesu" (Jesus) with an up tempo song powered by a hot rhythm section. You just know their church boogies on Sundays.

Soulfege

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Afro-diasporic Groovalicious Funkadociousness!

Papa Appiah

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passionate, emotional, gravely voice. He mixes highlife, pan-african, and jazz to create a danceable fun music.

Aziza Dance & Drum Ensemble

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Kofi Ayivor

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KOFI AYIVOR grew up on the coast of Ghana. Trained to become a master drummer in his native Ewe tradition Kofi took the rhythms he already knew from his village to the capital city of Ghana and then to foreign lands.

Atongo Zimba

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Afro-fusion of the 21st Century from the Savannahs of Ghana

Rhian Benson

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Rhian Benson is a new African/British artist with a distinctive mix of R&B/soul, jazz and reggae.

Kabudu

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Kabudu is a dynamic group of performers celebrating the diverse traditional & contemporary culture of West Afrika through music, dance and theatre.