Legendary Ghanaian sound engineer Jeff Quaye (JQ) gives details to the root of Hi-Life and Afrobeat music
We never called our music HI-LIFE until foreigners stepped foot in Ghana and other parts of Africa. Tribes that inhabited our lands brewed their music from their culture. Adowa being music of the Akans, which just like Hip-hop, has two faces – music and the dance that accompanied it. Same as the Ga people…