Veteran Highlife musician, Samuel Owusu the reason why highlife music has endured for so long According to him, Highlife is similar to Kente.
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He made this claim while conversing with Joy Entertainment’s Kofi Hayford at Kojo Antwi’s Lovers Celebration show. In support of his claim, he emphasized that despite the advent of inferior Kente prints, the originality and authenticity of the original Kente from Bonwire could not be undermined.
“Highlife is highlife, look at Kojo (Antwi) today, he’s still the same Kojo but he’s still unique,” he said.
As a reminder, Highlife music has been the original identity of Ghanaian music since the 19th Century. It refers to a variety of regional fusions of African meter with western Jazz melodies. It borrows the melodic and rhythmic structures of traditional Akan music and Ga people’s Kpanlogo Music, but it’s usually performed with Western instruments.
In other news, an African-American socialite by the name of Tatiana has reportedly died just 10 days after her wedding ceremony while she was on a honeymoon with her husband.
According to reports, Tatiana was said to have traveled to Cameroon to fast track her wedding with her boyfriend but unfortunately died just ten days after the wedding ceremony.
Friends of Tatiana revealed that she had complained of a stomach ache before giving up the ghost a few hours later. Her death has shaken social media as all eyes were on her and her spouse for holding what many describe as one of the plush weddings for 2021.
