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The Fading Glory Of Palmwine Music In West Africa

x It is also iconic for being a midwife of one of Africa’s most prominent music genres dubbed, Palmwine music. This genre is also called Highlife music. It all began in the ports of Accra, Lagos, Liberia and Sierra Leone. African dockworkers and sailors who were under the Portuguese merchants of the early 1900s were the first ones to ever create versions of Palmwine Music. They just wanted to experiment on the guitars owned by their Spaniard and Portuguese masters and began mixing the Latin music the Westerners were playing with their own native Afro rhythms. There and then, the damp dockyards became the labour room of Palmwine Music.

Radio stations must stop promoting reggae dancehall and focus on Highlife

Radio stations must stop promoting reggae dancehall and focus on Highlife
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I ll never depart from highlife music – Kumi Guitar

‘I ll never depart from highlife music’ – Kumi Guitar LISTEN Kumi Guitar Nana Yaw Kumi, known in showbiz as Kumi Guitar, says he will never be tempted in doing other genres aside highlife. The Ghanaian highlife sensation was among the few musicians who have sustained highlife over the past years with back-to-back hits, especially with the influx of other foreign genres. In an interview with GNA Entertainment, Kumi Guitar said he was poised in continuing the legacy of highlife built by some legends in the past, and added that highlife music defines who he is as a Ghanaian artiste, especially when he had the chance to perform in other countries.

We can t allow highlife to die –Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - The Chronicle Online

‘We can’t allow highlife to die’ –Gyedu-Blay Ambolley Ghanaian highlife legend, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, has called on music industry players to preserve, develop and promote highlife as a genre that represents the national identity At the launch of the ‘Highlife Is Alive Fan Club’ in Accra, on Monday, he bemoaned the missing identity of music in recent times and expressed the belief that the club would help uplift and sustain the highlife genre. The club seeks to make highlife a national art form, promote it as an international art and work towards its recognition as a national cultural heritage. “Every country has its own music, so why do we have to ignore highlife and chase other genres like reggae, and dancehall, among others. It is quite sad that our radios are supporting the promotion of other genres, which is a total deviation,” Mr Ambulley said.

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