Highlife legend Nana Ampadu dead
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Nana Kwame Ampadu
Highlife legend Nana Kwame Ampadu has died.
The “Obra” hitmaker died on Tuesday, 28 September 2021, at the Legon Hospital in Accra where he was receiving treatment for an illness.
He was 76.
Nana Kwame Ampadu has numerous popular highlife tracks to his credit.
Ampadu's "African Brothers Band" was formed in 1963.
He came to prominence in 1967 when he released his song Ebi Te Yie (or "Some Are Well Seated"), a song that was seen as potentially critical of the then-governing National Liberation Council and disappeared from the airwaves, only returning after the end of military rule.
In 1973, he won a nationwide competition in Ghana to be crowned the Odwontofoohene, or "Singer-in-Chief.
Some of his popular tunes include Obra (which became the theme song for one of the Akan Drama shows aired on GTV on Sundays), Getty, Oman Bo Adwo, Ebi Te Yie, Kofi Nkrabea, Yaw Berko and Obi Benya Wo.
Source: Classfmonline.com
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