• Highlife is a Ghanaian music genre that originated along the coastal cities of present-day Ghana in the 19th century, during its history as a colony of...
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  • Igbo highlife is a contemporary musical genre which combines highlife and Igbo traditional music. The genre is primarily guitar-based music, with a rare...
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  • "Highlife" is a song by American hip hop group Cypress Hill. The song was released as a single from the group's fifth album, Skull & Bones. B-Real – vocals...
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  • continent. The best known modern genre originating in Ghana is Highlife. For many years, Highlife was the preferred music genre until the introduction of Hiplife...
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  • Burger-Highlife is a distinctive form of highlife music created by Ghanaian immigrants to Germany. It is considered a Ghanaian musical style. In the 1980s...
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  • Back in the High Life is the fourth solo album by English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood, released on 30 June 1986. The album...
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  • Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980–93 is a compilation album released by Soundway Records on 10 May 2024. The compilation collects highlife...
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  • chronology Singles from College Park "Wake Up" Released: January 13, 2023 "Highlife" Released: January 30, 2023 "Paradise II (Single Version)" Released: February...
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  • High life (redirect from Highlife (album))
    life in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. High Life, The High Life, or Highlife may refer to: The High Life (1960 film), a German film directed by Julien...
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  • R&B, country and pop singer-songwriter Ayinde Bakare – Yoruba jùjú and highlife musician Ayinla Kollington – Fuji musician Ayinla Omowura – apala musician...
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    an Edinburgh TV award. In August 2021, Luti Media produced Highlife for Channel 4. Highlife is a reality/documentary-style show, following a group of young...
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    Highlife is a cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life. It was devised in 1994 by Nathan Thompson. It is a two-dimensional, two-state cellular...
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  • Ultra-Boogie Highlife is the debut album by American hip-hop artist/producer Funkghost. It was released on March 31, 2000 [1] on his own independent imprint...
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    a Ghanaian vocalist and songwriter. He is widely known for his work in highlife bands of Ebo Taylor. Pat Thomas was born in Agona, Gold Coast (now in the...
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  • Ghanaian highlife emerged in the 1980s as a mixture of West African rhythms from Europe by Black people from south and North America. There were three...
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  • This is a list of notable Nigerian highlife musicians arranged in alphabetical order. There are several other genres of music in Nigeria these include...
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  • Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968–1981 is a compilation album released by Soundway Records on 2 November 2009. The compilation...
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  • Daasebre Gyamenah (Akan: Daasebrε Gyamena), was a Ghanaian highlife musician who became very popular for his hit album Kokooko (1999) which featured Lord...
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    Osibisa (category Ghanaian highlife musicians)
    Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form the Comets, with Osei's...
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    Ghanaian highlife musician Amakye Dede - a prominent Ghanaian highlife musician Nana Ampadu - a prominent and pioneering Ghanaian highlife musician Some...
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    Rara music, Were music, Ogene, Fuji, Jùjú, Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Igbo highlife, Afro-juju, Waka, Igbo rap, Gospel, Nigerian pop and Yo-pop. Styles of...
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    Highlife, is described by the rule B36/S23, because having six neighbours, in addition to the original game's B3/S23 rule, causes a birth. HighLife is...
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    It would peak at No. 50 on the U.S. Country Chart. "Lowlife (Living the Highlife)" was released as the album's seventh single on March 8, 2009. Rock n Roll...
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  • the 1920s, a Kru taught Ghanaian highlife guitarist Kwame Asare (or Jacob Sam). His Kumasi Trio made their first highlife recordings for Zonophone in London...
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    In the 1950s and 1960s, Highlife music became a popular staple in the country with regional genres such as the Igbo Highlife. A notable exponent of the...
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    facets of their daily lives. Some very popular Igbo musical styles are Igbo highlife, Ogene, Igbo gospel. When examining the impact that music has on the culture...
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  • first highlife orchestras from Cape Coast.They were also known as the Light Orchestra. Their style of music is known as West African Highlife music....
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  • Highlife is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock. It was recorded at Jersey City's Quantum Sound Studio in October 1990 and released...
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  • Ikwokirikwo (Ikwokilikwo) is a high-tempo style of Igbo highlife music influenced by Ogene, which gives the style its fast-paced signature. The style emerged...
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    Tony Allen (musician) (category Highlife musicians)
    popular Yoruba music from the 1940s, but also American jazz, and the growing highlife scene in Nigeria and Ghana. Allen worked hard to develop a unique voice...
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