Dr k gyasi biography of mahatma
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Dr. K Gyasi
Ghanaian highlife musician
Kwame Gyasi (1929–2012) was a Ghanaian highlife musician.[1] He originated the Sikyi highlife sub-genre which combined electric organ with the known highlife genres.[2][3][4]
Early life and career
Gyasi was born in 1929 at Ankaase in the Ashanti Region.[5] His uncle taught him to play palmwine guitar highlife and the imported calypso music.
He made his first recording two years after joining the Accra-based Appiah Adjekum’s band.
Dr k gyasi biography of mahatma
The recording was made in a mobile studio in Nsawam in 1952.[6]
In 1963, Ghana's president Kwame Nkrumah invited him to accompany him on his various visits to the Soviet Bloc and North Africa.[1]
Gyasi later formed the Noble Kings Band with which he spent a larger portion of his career.
In 1974, he released the classic Sikyi highlife medley album on Dick Essilfie-Bondzie's Essiebons record label. The album was the first to use electroni