Dr. K Gyasi
Ghanaian highlife musician
About Dr. K Gyasi
Lived 1929 – 2012 (aged 82–83).
Kwame Gyasi (1929–2012) was a Ghanaian highlife musician. He originated the Sikyi highlife sub-genre which combined electric organ with the known highlife genres.
Early life and career Gyasi was born in 1929 at Ankaase in the Ashanti Region. His uncle taught him to play palmwine guitar highlife and the imported calypso music. He made his first recording two years after joining the Accra-based Appiah Adjekum’s band. The recording was made in a mobile studio in Nsawam in 1952.
In 1963, Ghana's president Kwame Nkrumah invited him to accompany him on his various visits to the Soviet Bloc and North Africa.
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Who was Dr. K Gyasi?
Ghanaian highlife musician
When was Dr. K Gyasi born?
Dr. K Gyasi was born in 1929.
When did Dr. K Gyasi die?
Dr. K Gyasi died in 2012.
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