Asabea Cropper

Eugenia Asabia Cropper popularly known as Queen Asabia Cropper is a Ghanaian female highlife singer and saxophonist. She wears kente cloth headwraps which her grandmother and mother gave her the patterns for in 1975. She created the Mt Kilimanjaro, In 1979, Black Hustlers Band leader – Smart Nkansah and Agyaaku, a vocal singer left the band living Eboni records.

Band members: Amadou Doukoure and Linda Farmer in Côte D'Ivoire.

The Eboni records band, Black Hustlers backed Mory Kanté's album N'Diarabi with Kenteman on bass guitar.

Queen Asabia Cropper collaborated with Samuel Mangwana and Jimmy Hyacinthe on the album Sam Asabia She was also honored by MUSIGA Presidential Grand Ball. She received the Music Industry Heroes Award in the second edition of honoring music legends in Ghana. Queen Asabia and her brother Kenteman received a lifetime achievement award from the Musicians Union of Ghana. Queen Asabia was the artist of the year and self titled album Asabia was chosen as the album of the year in then Entertainment Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana (ACRAG) awards 1985.

1983 was the giving birth of kente print in Cote D'Ivoire. A print that was named after Queen Asabia Cropper, Pangne de Asabia which means – Asabia's Cloth or Asabia's trademark uniform. Queen Asabia Cropper and Kenteman have projected and promoted Ghana's kente cloth to the globe for four decades. In the 1980s Queen Asabia Cropper and Kenteman duo had established themselves as Ghana's music ambassadors to the world and their distinctive kente costume nicknamed pangne du Asabia had found many followers globally. Admirers of their kente concepts of togetherness and love of people of all nations of the world include the Empress of African music (Mama Africa) – Miriam Makeba and renowned heads of states and presidents.

In 1984 she was crowned the 'queen of Highlife' at the Ghana National State House.

Discography

Torwia Inamosi Wamaya I Love So Much