Entertainment of Tuesday, 13 July 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Ghanaians were nicknamed ‘the High-life people’ in the past•The country was the first in West Africa to own sophisticated music gadgets•Ghanaians have been asked to re-embrace the high-life music genreThe Ghanaian highlife music was borne out of the fact that early musicians used high-end equipment to produce their songs, a popular DJ has established. “We sampled our highlife music from other people. He however bemoaned how Ghanaians have somewhat rejected the ‘most coveted’ high-life music genre in recent times to chase after others. The Nigerians picked our highlife which we have rejected, dusted it up and re-branded it into afrobeats. The earliest form of highlife was performed primarily by brass bands along the Ghanaian coast.

Source: GhanaWeb July 13, 2021 14:09 UTC