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  1. Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

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    Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

    #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

  2. Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

    amf.didiermary.fr/oliver-de-co

    Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

    #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

  3. Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

    amf.didiermary.fr/oliver-de-co

    Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

    #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

  4. Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

    amf.didiermary.fr/oliver-de-co

    Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

    #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

  5. Oliver De Coque & his Expo 76

    amf.didiermary.fr/oliver-de-co

    Oliver Sunday Akanite (14 April 1947 – 20 June 2008), better known by the stage name Oliver De Coque, was a Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, composer and guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists spanning over four decades of the highlife music scene. His extensive use of Igbo traditional rhythms and the fusion […]

    #Highlife #Nigeria #OldAfricanMusic

  6. Ambolley – Simigwa

    amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim

    Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat

  7. Ambolley – Simigwa

    amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim

    Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat

  8. Ambolley – Simigwa

    amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim

    Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat

  9. Ambolley – Simigwa

    amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim

    Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat

  10. Ambolley – Simigwa

    amf.didiermary.fr/ambolley-sim

    Simigwa is a legendary Ghanian album – with one of the most iconic covers ever! – that fuses Highlife, Afrobeat, Folk and Funk. Ambolley’s debut solo album originally released in 1975, written and produced with Ebo Taylor.

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley grew up during the peak of Highlife in Ghana and was a key figure in […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #AfroBeat

  11. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Simigwa-Do

    amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-a

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.

    Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to the age of eight, when he began […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife

  12. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Simigwa-Do

    amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-a

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.

    Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to the age of eight, when he began […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife

  13. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Simigwa-Do

    amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-a

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.

    Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to the age of eight, when he began […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife

  14. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Simigwa-Do

    amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-a

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.

    Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to the age of eight, when he began […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife

  15. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley – Simigwa-Do

    amf.didiermary.fr/gyedu-blay-a

    Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, the versatile, irrepressible singer, songwriter, producer and Ghanean “musical- life-force” exploded on the music scene in 1973, with a jazzy Highlife sound he called “Simigwa-Do”.

    Ambolley taught himself to play the flute as a first instrument in his early years of musical interest dating back to the age of eight, when he began […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife

  16. Sahara All Stars of Jos

    amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-s

    The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

  17. Sahara All Stars of Jos

    amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-s

    The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

  18. Sahara All Stars of Jos

    amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-s

    The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

  19. Sahara All Stars of Jos

    amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-s

    The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

  20. Sahara All Stars of Jos

    amf.didiermary.fr/sahara-all-s

    The Sahara All Stars of Jos were based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria, far from Lagos. Dan Satch Ayo who led the band, had played with Dr Sir Warrior, a Nigerian Igbo highlife musical prodigy, guitarist, one of the pioneers of […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Highlife #Nigeria #AfroBeat

  21. Super Negro Bantous

    amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-

    Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

    The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

    #70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

  22. Super Negro Bantous

    amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-

    Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

    The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

    #70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

  23. Super Negro Bantous

    amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-

    Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

    The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

    #70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

  24. Super Negro Bantous

    amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-

    Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

    The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

    #70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

  25. Super Negro Bantous

    amf.didiermary.fr/super-negro-

    Despite their Congolese-sounding name, Super Negro Bantous were a renowned Igbo band led by Elah Elvis, recording at least seven albums for Rogers All Stars while combining highlife, soukous and folk music.

    The four songs on this self-titled album are sung in Pidgin English. [...]

    #70smusic #FullAlbum #Highlife #Nigeria #Soukous #Vinyl #OldAfricanMusic

  26. Lagos All Routes

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-ro

    Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

    ‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

  27. Lagos All Routes

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-ro

    Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

    ‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

  28. Lagos All Routes

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-ro

    Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

    ‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

  29. Lagos All Routes

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-ro

    Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

    ‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

  30. Lagos All Routes

    amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-all-ro

    Lagos All Routes (Juju, Highlife, Apala and Fuji) is a compilation of Nigerian music from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, often considered the ‘golden age’ of African popular music. In Nigerian pidgin English, ‘chop-up’ makes figurative reference to a bountiful feast.

    ‘Lagos All Routes’ refers to the fact that while the [...]

    #60smusic #70smusic #80smusic #Fuji #Highlife #JùjúMusic #Nigeria #Remixed #OldAfricanMusic

  31. K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda

    amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cub

    Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.

    K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]

    #80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  32. K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda

    amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cub

    Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.

    K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]

    #80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  33. K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda

    amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cub

    Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.

    K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]

    #80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  34. K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda

    amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cub

    Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.

    K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]

    #80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  35. K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta – Me Da A Ɔnnda

    amf.didiermary.fr/frimpong-cub

    Me Da A Ɔnnda is a classic and essential Hi-Life & Afro Funk album from one of the greatest Ghanaian singer and composer, recorded in 1980 by the legendary K. Frimpong and his Cubanos Fiesta band.

    K . Frimpong was born on July 22nd, 1939 at Ofoase in the Ashanti – Akim district and entered right […]

    #80smusic #AfroFunk #FullAlbum #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  36. K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

    amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-b

    The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  37. K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

    amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-b

    The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  38. K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

    amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-b

    The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  39. K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

    amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-b

    The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  40. K. Frimpong backed by Vis​-​A​-​Vis

    amf.didiermary.fr/k-frimpong-b

    The legendary K. Frimpong on this reissue of a fantastic rare album, recorded in 1978 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra. Here he’s backed by the famous Vis-A-Vis band. […]

    #70smusic #AfroFunk #Ghana #Highlife #OldAfricanMusic

  41. Ata Kak – Batakari

    amf.didiermary.fr/ata-kak-bata

    A pioneering electronic highlife artist, Ata Kak has released a new album in 2025, his first in 30 years. “Batakari” offers “an addictive mix of offbeat electronic music and Twi-language hiplife—hiplife itself being a fusion of hip-hop and highlife.”

    Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. […]

    #Ghana #Highlife #Electro #HipHop

  42. Ata Kak – Batakari

    amf.didiermary.fr/ata-kak-bata

    A pioneering electronic highlife artist, Ata Kak has released a new album in 2025, his first in 30 years. “Batakari” offers “an addictive mix of offbeat electronic music and Twi-language hiplife—hiplife itself being a fusion of hip-hop and highlife.”

    Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. […]

    #Ghana #Highlife #Electro #HipHop

  43. Ata Kak – Batakari

    amf.didiermary.fr/ata-kak-bata

    A pioneering electronic highlife artist, Ata Kak has released a new album in 2025, his first in 30 years. “Batakari” offers “an addictive mix of offbeat electronic music and Twi-language hiplife—hiplife itself being a fusion of hip-hop and highlife.”

    Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. […]

    #Ghana #Highlife #Electro #HipHop

  44. Ata Kak – Batakari

    amf.didiermary.fr/ata-kak-bata

    A pioneering electronic highlife artist, Ata Kak has released a new album in 2025, his first in 30 years. “Batakari” offers “an addictive mix of offbeat electronic music and Twi-language hiplife—hiplife itself being a fusion of hip-hop and highlife.”

    Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. […]

    #Ghana #Highlife #Electro #HipHop

  45. Ata Kak – Batakari

    amf.didiermary.fr/ata-kak-bata

    A pioneering electronic highlife artist, Ata Kak has released a new album in 2025, his first in 30 years. “Batakari” offers “an addictive mix of offbeat electronic music and Twi-language hiplife—hiplife itself being a fusion of hip-hop and highlife.”

    Ata Kak created a peculiar slice of Ghanaian music history with his debut album “Obaa Sima”. […]

    #Ghana #Highlife #Electro #HipHop