Kyekyeku

Bio

Kyekyeku has led a musical revolution from Ghana, charging the younger generation to re-embrace the vintage music styles of the country showcasing Highlife; its roots and fusions across Africa and Europe. He created the platform Musiki Nkomo to gather and share knowledge on band formations, obstacles and solutions for young Ghanaian bands who dream of accessing a wider audience. The platform also delves into the lives of old and aged Highlife musicians, including visits and documentation. A contributing member to Highlife Music Deconstructed Series (featured in Songlines Magazine April 2021 ) that seeks to shine light on everything Ghanaian music.
Kyekyeku has brought new excitement within contemporaries to explore and tour with music from Ghana. His band; ''SUPER OPONG STARS'' is an exciting high octane patchwork of the country's root palm wine blues, highlife, Afrobeat and Afrofunk heritage.
Formerly known as Ghanalogue Highlife, the band easily places anywhere between retro and vintage style of the '70s, 'confused' trends of the '90s as well as the present booming African scene.
Well established on the live scene of Accra, the group has performed at such events as MASA Festival (Abidjan), Sauti Za Busara (Zanzibar), Visa For Music (Morocco) and shared the stages with Salif Keita and Richard Bona at the recent Stanbic Jazz Festival in Accra.

In the press:
Read:
New Frame: Highlife music digs deep for its roots
https://www.newframe.com/highlife-music-digs-deep-for-its-roots%EF%BB%BF...

‘Kyekyeku is setting a new tempo for the Ghanaian music scene. A wizard with a guitar’ - CNN African Voices.

‘A fabulous guitarist’- BBC Global Beats

'Kyekyeku and his musicians magnify note after note the cardinal virtues of a musical heritage erected in an art of living: sharing, pleasure and openness to others' - Forbes Afrique.

‘Kyekyeku is a rare cat indeed in Ghana—a talented young guitar player interested in developing the all-but-vanished art of palm wine guitar.’ - Afropop Worldwide.

‘The young, talented singer, songwriter and guitarist Kyekyeku is flying the flag for an older acoustic folk genre known as Palmwine music’ -RFI World Music Matters.

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Ghana and Trinidad Tobago Unite: Koo Nimo and Lancelot Layne Poetry under the Cocoa Trees.
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Kyekyeku added a new video

"Africa Till I Die" Kyekyeku & Rocky Dawuni
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Kyekyeku added 3 new videos

Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars -WOMAD Festival 2022 - 'AFRICA TILL I DIE'
Kyekyeku & Super Opong stars trailer
Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars WOMAD Festival 2022 - Kukru Me
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Kyekyeku added 8 new tracks

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06 Eni Hwe Hi
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04 Robert Mensah
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01 Nakupenda
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Music

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01 Nakupenda
04:53
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02 Adwoa Obe
04:50
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03 To See The World
04:28
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04 Robert Mensah
05:20
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05 Africa Till I Die#2
04:23
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06 Eni Hwe Hi
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07 Kukru Me
06:29
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08 Correction
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Videos

Ghana and Trinidad Tobago Unite: Koo Nimo and Lancelot Layne Poetry under the Cocoa Trees.
"Africa Till I Die" Kyekyeku & Rocky Dawuni
Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars WOMAD Festival 2022 - Kukru Me
Kyekyeku & Super Opong stars trailer
Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars -WOMAD Festival 2022 - 'AFRICA TILL I DIE'
CROWDFUND CAMPAIGN: Kyekyeku and Super Opong Stars : Album on Vinyl
Limpopo Lover - Kyekyeku
Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars @ La Mar de Musica ,Spain
Kyekyeku - Fri M'akwan Mu
Kyekyeku & Super Opong Stars - Sor
KATAPULT Session 2 : Kyekyeku
High Life The Highs & Lows Ghana's Cherished Music
Kyekyeku & Ghanalogue Highlife Kukru Me
Sor Kyekyeku at SHOWCASE TIME
Kyekyeku music meeting at G20 Africa partnership conference- Berlin, 2017
Kyekyeku: SOR EURO TOUR #1
kyekyeku-Beautiful Place
Visa for Music 2016 Kyekyeku Showcase
Kyekyeku CNN African Voices
Kyekyeku Shito Wonu - O Luku Me
Kyekyeku- Nya Asem Whe
kyekyeku I See You Long TIme
Kyekyeku The Highlife Project
Kyekyeku: ANDALUCIA CON AZONTO
KYEKYEKU EPK

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Gigs

GHAccra, Ghana
In operation since: 
2006

Contact

kakrakakraprod@gmail.com
whatsapp +33768505611
EUGENE Ampadu

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