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Cape Coast Sugar Babies
Cape Coast Sugar Babies was one of the first highlife orchestras from Cape Coast Cape Coast is a city and the capital of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, Cape Coast Metropolitan District and the Central Region (Ghana), Central Region of Ghana, Ghana. It is located about from Sekondi-Takoradi and approximately from Ac ....They were also known as the Light Orchestra. Their style of music is known as West African Highlife music. Background In the 1930s similar orchestras of almost symphonic composition with popular dance tunes was introduced by Cape Coast Sugar Babies. There were others that played similar composition: Winneba Orchestra, the Asante Nkramo Band, the Sekondi Nanshamang and Professor Grave's Orchestra. They are remembered by their tour of Nigeria in 1937. Highlife was taken out of Ghana to Nigeria by E.T Mensah and Cape Coast Sugar Babies in the 1950s. Songs * Araba Takyiwa * " Wo nim Owuo A whe Nna" References {{Genres of African popular musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Highlife
Highlife is a Ghanaian music genre that originated along the coastal cities of present-day Ghana in the 19th century, during its Gold Coast (region), history as a colony of the British and through its trade routes in coastal areas. It encompasses multiple local fusions of African metre and western jazz melodies. It uses the melodic and main rhythmic structures of traditional African music, but is typically played with Western instruments. Highlife is characterized by jazzy Horn section, horns and guitars which lead the band and its use of the two-finger plucking Guitar picking, guitar style that is typical of African music. Recently it has acquired an uptempo, synth-driven sound. Highlife gained popularity and the genre spread throughout West African regions. Pioneers like Rex Lawson, Cardinal Rex Lawson, E. T. Mensah, E.T. Mensah, Victor Uwaifo, all perfected this sound by infusing traditional Africa drums and western "Native Blues". After the Second World War, its popularity ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a city and the capital of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, Cape Coast Metropolitan District and the Central Region (Ghana), Central Region of Ghana, Ghana. It is located about from Sekondi-Takoradi and approximately from Accra. The city is one of the most historically significant settlements in Ghana. As of the 2010 census, Cape Coast has a population of 108,374 people. The majority of people who lived in the city are Fante people, Fante. The city was once the capital of the Fetu Kingdom, an aboriginal Guang people, Guan kingdom located north of Cape Coast. Once the Europeans arrived, they established the Cape Coast Castle, which eventually went under the hands of the British Empire, British who named the castle and its surrounding settlement the headquarters of the Royal African Company. Cape Coast became the capital of the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast from 1821 until 1877, where it was transferred to Accra. Cape Coast is a educational hub in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
