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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. ....
‘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. ....
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Make highlife national treasure Veteran artistes BY: Gifty Owusu-Amoah Category: Events Mr Mike Eghan (2nd left), a pioneer broadcaster, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and Prof. Amin Alhassan (right), Director-General of the GBC, unveiling the logo to officially launch the Highlife is Alive Fan Club. With them is Prof. Kwame Karikari (left), Board Chairman of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd. Picture: ESTHER ADJEI Veteran highlife artistes have stressed the need for a concerted effort to preserve that genre of music as a national art treasure and heritage. That, according to them, was the surest way of preserving Ghana’s culture and heritage on the global music stage, in the face of the steady threat posed by new and foreign music styles, such as Dancehall, in Ghana’s music business. ....