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Sir Victor Uwaifo
33,576 listeners
Sir Victor Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor
Born in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria in 1941, he is famous…
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Soukou Soul
42 listeners
Soukou Soul is an African sound with a twist.
A skilful fusion of soukous, jazz & highlife, original lyrics in
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E.T. Mensah
12,017 listeners
E.T. Mensah, the multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and undisputed King of Highlife, who sadly died in 1996 was the artist who inspired RetroAfric's…
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Kojo Antwi
4,040 listeners
Kojo Antwi (Kwadjo Antwi) after leaving school, started his Music career immediately by playing with Boomtalents. He was shortly after discovered…
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Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
11,145 listeners
In March 1936, Osadebe was born in Igbo town of Atani, in Southeastern Nigeria. He came from a line of singers and dancers in Igboland. His genre,…
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K. Frimpong
9,855 listeners
Alhaji K. Frimpong (real name Mohammed Ibrahim Kwame Frimpong) was a Ghanaian highlife highlife guitarist, composer, arranger and lead vocalist. He is…
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Celestine Ukwu
9,785 listeners
Celestine Ukwu (Celestine Obiakor) began his musical career during the 1960's with Michael Ejeagha's Paradise Rhythm Orchestra in Enugu, capital of…
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Solomon Ilori
8,297 listeners
Solomon Gbadegesin Ilori (born c. 1934) is a Nigerian drummer and percussionist who moved to New York City in 1958 and collaborated with jazz…
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Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson
5,549 listeners
Rex Jim Lawson (c.1930 - 1969), known as Cardinal Rex, was a singer, trumpeter and bandleader from Kalabari (Ijaw), Nigeria. One of the best-known…
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Victor Olaiya
5,952 listeners
Victor Olaiya (born Victor Abimbola Olaiya on 31 December 1930; died 12 February 2020), also known as Dr. Victor Olaiya, was a Nigerian trumpeter…
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Boy Mandeville
8,785 listeners
boy mandeville play wildly visceral guitar based music.
Taking melody and rhythm from highlife and soukous and infusing it with the song writing… -
Prince Nico Mbarga
4,691 listeners
Prince Nico Mbarga (1 January 1950 – 24 June 1997) was a highlife musician, born to a Nigerian mother and a Cameroonian father in Abakaliki, Nigeria.…
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Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes
5,530 listeners
Sir Victor Uwaifo is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, born in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria in 1941. He is…
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Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestros
6,353 listeners
Sir Victor Uwaifo (the 'Sir' is apocryphal) is a Nigerian musician, famous for his joromi music.
He was born in Benin City, Ebo State, Nigeria in 1941.… -
Amakye Dede
1,033 listeners
Dan Amakye Dede is a Ghanaian musician. He is one of Ghana's premier highlife artistes and is called "Iron Boy", "the highlife maestro" and…
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Julie Coker
2,991 listeners
After gaining fame as Miss Western Nigeria 1957, Julie Coker began her career in the Nigerian entertainment industry as the country’s first ever…