Guitar Band Highlife VI

Guitar Band Highlife VI

• Nigeria
  • Developed out of the Ibo palm-wine styles with influences from Ghana and Sierra Leone
  • 1970’s Super Ikenga’s Stars of Africa
  • 1976 Prince Nico Mbarga
• Burgher Highlife
  • 1989 George Darko
  • 1990’s Lumba Brothers

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Nigeria

Developed out of the Ibo palm-wine styles with influences from Ghana and Sierra Leone1970’s Super Ikenga’s Stars of Africa1976 Prince Nico MbargaBlend of Zaire, Cameroon and Nigeria music.

Burgher Highlife

Late 1970’s High Tech HighlifeHamburg and Berlin, GermanyGeorge DarkoHit’s include “Highlife Time” and “Money Palava”Studied Guitar with Koo Nimo1990’s Lumba Brother’s added hip-hop to highlife