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👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾 Prof. John Collins writer, journalist, recording engineer and highlife historian. Has been an essential asset to the preservation of Highlife music across West Africa for almost 50 years. His foundation the Bokoor African Music Archive Foundation (BAPMAF), holds decades worth of  West African highlife history. Collins is a naturalised Ghanaian who initially came to Ghana in 1952 as a young boy with his family, and then settled in Ghana and has been active in the Highlife scene since 1969. . . Musically he has worked with a number of Nigerian and Ghanaian musicians and bands such as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Koo Nimo, Victor Uwaifo, Kwaa Mensah and T.O.Jazz to name a few. As an artist himself, he ran his own Highlife band called the Bokoor Highlife guitar band which is also associated with his foundation (BAPMAF).  . . We owe a great amount to Prof. J. Collins and others, in inspiring and educating our vision in the continued work towards the preservation of our music and history. #anodetohighlife #highlifemusic #highlife #grammaphone #westafricanmusic #thevinylfactory #explorepage #palmwinehighlife #african #GhanaianHistory #Ghanaianmusic #ghanatourism #africandiaspora #analogafrica #johncollins #ghanaheritage #ghanaarchive #ghanahistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5_N2uHYG2/?igshid=1t6abnchxgvxu

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@Angelllarr: RT @kudigoinc: Wishing you the very best of the season from all of us here at KudiGo.... enjoy some authentic #Ghanaian #palmwinehighlife music #kudigoishere https://t.co/73rHWNEqaI

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[Swipe Left] . . Koo Nimo also known as Daniel Amponsah was born in 1934. He grew up around Palmwine highlife which he is highly recognised as grand master of folk/palmwine music. Nimo states that his first experience with music was through his father who was a musician in a local brass band. . . Nimo was also taught music at the Presbyterian school in Kumasi,  “I was forced to spend hours listening to Bach and Beethoven as there were some German missionaries there who liked this sort of thing. The German missionaries were militant and they detected something musical in me and felt they should help me”. John Collins, (2018) p 274. . . In the late 1950s Nimo left his hometown to Accra to study at the Medical Research Institute, graduating in 1955 he went back to his home town and started his own group called Antobre. . . Koo Nimo has consistently stuck to his traditional and rootsy style of highlife music and although he has currently retreated away in his hometown in Kumasi. He is now continually influencing and teaching young highlife musicians. . . Palmwine Guitar Highlife Series-Agya Koo Nimo of Ghana Adapted from Nana Konadu on Youtube . #anodetohighlife #highlifemusic #highlife #grammaphone #westafricanmusic #thevinylfactory #explorepage #palmwinehighlife #african #GhanaianHistory #Ghanaianmusic #ghanatourism #africandiaspora #analogafrica #koonimo #ghanaheritage #ghana (at Kumasi, Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3cS_wpeEo/?igshid=124rx58w0m8x1

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Kwabena (King) Onyina (1932) was born in Agona Swedru, he grew up with his uncle Opanin Kofi Obeng in Koforidua. Onyina was an apprentice shoemaker with a great interest in the guitar, utilising such passion to entertain friends and family around town. . . Onyina’s first concert party group was the Coolers Band, formed in 1951, in Koforidua. 2 years later he moved to Kumasi to start his Onyina Guitar Band with the assistance of businessman Daniel Kyei. The group successfully recorded hits for Decca such as ‘Odo Ye Owu’, ‘Lumumba’, ‘Nanti Yie’, ‘Ohia Asoma Wo’, ‘Menim Nea Maye’ and the ‘Destiny of Africa’. . . The success of the band led him to win the National Guitar Band contest in 1961 formed by the then Arts Council and GBC. Onyina also won because he truly understood how to augment Jazz chords into guitar highlife, which makes him such a treasure to Highlife music. . . Like many Highlife musicians in the mid-60s, he accompanied President Kwame Nkrumah on state visits to Tunisia, Poland and Mali. In 1964 Onyina was invited to the UK by Decca Records and performed at the Battersea Town Hall with the Black Star band which was run by Teddy Osei and Ebo Taylor. Onyina retired in Kumasi after a successful career and passed away on the 27th May 2010 at age 78. . . Odo Yew Owu - Onyina’s Guitar Band Adapted via Youtube from Groovermonzter . #anodetohighlife #highlifemusic #highlife #grammaphone #westafricanmusic #thevinylfactory #explorepage #palmwinehighlife #african #GhanaianHistory #Ghanaianmusic #ghanatourism #africandiaspora #analogafrica #vinyl #vinylcollection (at Agona Swedru) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB0z2jjpd5D/?igshid=1t072wz8nuhnr

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Ghanian Highlife saxophonist Jerry Hansen was born in Bekwai, Kumasi in 1927. Whilst studying at  Accra Academy, Hansen become attracted to music by the way of  America greats such as Duke Ellington and Glen Miller.  . . . In the 50s he joined Teacher Lamptey’s Accra Orchestra (formed in 1930) and then, moved on to join the Black Beats highlife band 2 years later with King Bruce and Saka Acquaye (and included  Frank Crofie) as the resident group of the Weekend-in-Havanna.  . . Hansen left the Black Beats 9 years later after much success to form his own Ramblers highlife big-band helped by Habib Zakar, owner of the Metropole Club in Accra. The legendary Ramblers travelled to Benin, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Togo around the mid-sixties. This was also around the time the band had begun to release some of their classic numbers on the Decca label like ‘Work and Happiness’, ‘Awuraaba Artificial’ and ‘Ama Bonsu’. . . . Song: Akoko Nini N'Abankawa - Jerry Hansen & The Ramblers International Band Adapted from YouTube by Evergreen Dance Band . Song: Ama Bonsu -The Ramblers Dance Band Adapted from YouTube by Ms Dzifa . #anodetohighlife #highlifemusic #highlife #grammaphone #westafricanmusic #thevinylfactory #explorepage #palmwinehighlife #african #GhanaianHistory #Ghanaianmusic #ghanatourism #africandiaspora #jerryhansen #theramblersinternational (at Asante Bekwai) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBxaCLZpxiY/?igshid=13443kcgai5tm

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