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''Welcome Home'' is the seventh studio album by
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Osibisa Osibisa is a Ghanaian-Caribbean Afro rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London-based Caribbean musicians. Osibisa was the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in ...
released in 1975 by
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ILPS 9355. Issued in 1997 CD format by Red Steel Music Ltd. RMC 0208.


Track listing


Personnel

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Teddy Osei Francis Osei (17 December 1935 – 14 January 2025), known as Teddy Osei, was a Ghanaian musician who was a saxophone player, drummer and vocalist, and best known as the leader of the Afro-pop band Osibisa, founded in 1969. Born in Kumasi, Osei ...
– African drums, flute, percussion, tenor and soprano saxophones, vocals * Mac Tontoh – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion, didjeridu, prensa * Sol Amarfio – drums, percussion, bells, bongos, congas * Kofi Ayivor – congas, percussion *
Kiki Gyan Kiki Gyan (7 June 1957 – 6 June 2004), also known as Kiki Djan, was a Ghanaian musician. He was the keyboardist of the band Osibisa which was popular in the 1970s. He also recorded and produced a series of disco records. He was a prodigy who co ...
– clavinet, keyboards, organ, piano, vocals * Mike Odumusu – bass guitar, vocals * Wendell Richardson – guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals * Ray Allen – vibraphone * Robert Bailey – vibraphone * Barbara Thompson – vibraphone * Jean-Karl Dikoto Mandengue – bass guitar on "Uhuru" * Paul Golly – rhythm guitars on "Uhuru" * Producer – Gerry Bron * Engineer – Ashley Howe * Recorded at the Roundhouse Recording Studios, London * Cover painting – Ian Emes * Remastering – Mike Brown & Robert M Corich


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* All information gathered from liner notes of CD format ''Welcome Home'' (Copyright © 1997 Red Steel Music Ltd. RMC CD 0208.) *
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