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Osibisa had an energetic performance in India, at the November Fest 2010 on 28 November 2010 at the Corporation Kalaiarangam in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The revitalised band remains active, although Osei has cut back his touring schedule due to the effects of a stroke. In 1996 Osei reformed the band, and many of their past releases began coming out legally on CD. In the 1990s their music was widely anthologised in many CD collections, most of them unauthorised and paying no royalties whatsoever to the band. The band returned to Ghana to set up a recording studio and theatre complex to help younger highlife musicians.
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In 1980 Osibisa performed at a special Zimbabwean independence celebration, and in 1983 were filmed onstage at the Marquee Club in London.Ĭhanges in the music industry however ( punk and disco primarily) meant declining sales for the band, and a series of label changes resulted. During this time Paul Golly (guitar) and Ghanaians Daku Adams "Potato" and Kiki Gyan were also members of the band. The band spent much of the 1970s touring the world, playing to large audiences in Japan, Australia, India, and Africa. Joining them in the first incarnation were Grenadian Spartacus R (bass) Trinidadian Robert Bailey (keyboard) Antiguan Wendell Richardson (lead guitar and lead vocalist) and Nigerians Mike Odumosu and Fred Coker (bass guitar) and Lasisi Amao (percussionist and tenor saxophone). In 1969 he persuaded Amarfio and Tontoh to join him in London, and Osibisa was born. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul.
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They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "Pete Pete." In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. When you put a woman on stage, it is the same impact she’ll be giving as a man on stage.In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere ( flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. Like Gyakie, we are doing well… you can not deny the fact that women are extremely doing well nowadays. The ‘Aduŋ Lei’ hitmaker furthered: “I can hit my chest and say I can count 10 women now that are making hits. Now it is not like that, things have changed and more women are in the industry,” Abiana said. They think we will love to get married and do all kinds of things, the age factor and things. “People think that when women are in the industry they are limited. It has encouraged people to just come in. When they come up, they blow up through Tik Tok. These two women, I only knew them but right now, there’s a wider of women in the industry and they don’t need to struggle because of the influx of technology and social media, it comes much easy. “When I was growing up, I only knew Becca and Efya. Now, according to Abiana, there are a large number of them in the game using available technologies and social media platforms to push their songs. Speaking in an interview on Hitz103.9FM, she recalled back in the day where there was just a handful of female musicians making waves in the industry. The singer has noted that she feels pride in witnessing women producing hit songs and highlighting major events in Ghana. The reigning VGMA Best Female Vocalist, Abiana, has congratulated women in the music industry for beating all the odds and making their voices heard in and across the country.