A singer from Osu
who kept the receipts.
Six years, four records, two hundred nights and one band that has not changed since the second album.
Not just a voice.
A story in motion.
I am a singer, a songwriter and a bandleader shaped by late sessions, empty notebooks and the kind of moments that demand to be sung about.
Music has always been more than sound to me — it is memory, movement and meaning. Whether I am in the studio, on tour or scribbling lines backstage, I am chasing the next song worth keeping.
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Harmattan Skin
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Slow Down, Accra
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Midnight Trotro
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Highlife–soul vocalist
So far
Six years, told in four numbers
210
+
Shows played since the first EP
24
Cities across West Africa and Europe
38
Songs released, all of them written here
7
Players in the band at full strength
The band
Four people who make it sound like the record
Nobody here is hired for the night. This line-up has been together since the second album and it is why a room in Kumasi sounds like a room in Accra.
Kwabena Owusu
Musical director · keys
Arranges every set, runs the rehearsals, and has been in the band since the front-room EP.
Naa Dedei Lartey
Bass · backing vocals
Came off the gospel circuit in Tema and gave the low end the push the records had been missing.
Yaw Nkrumah
Tenor saxophone
Writes the horn lines, teaches four mornings a week, and has never once played the same solo twice.
Esi Bonsu
Front of house engineer
Travels with the band and mixes every show, which is why a room in Kumasi sounds like the record.
How I work
Four things that never move
01
Everything is played live
No backing tracks, no click for the audience to hear. If a horn line is on the record, a horn player is on the stage or the arrangement changes.
02
The masters are owned outright
Which means sync requests are a conversation rather than a chain of permissions, and it means the catalogue never disappears from a service overnight.
03
The band is paid the same night
Every player, every show, before anybody goes home. It is the single reason this line-up has stayed together for four years.
04
Twi, English, and whatever the room speaks
The songs move between them mid-verse because that is how the city does. Nothing is translated for anybody's comfort.
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