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Muzic Mensah earns two Ghana Music Awards Europe nominations
US-based Ghanaian musician Muzic Mensah has secured two nominations at the 2026 Ghana Music Awards Europe, earning recognition in the Best Diaspora Highlife Artist of the Year and Best Diaspora Collaboration of the Year categories.
Adina traces her love for highlife to ‘ebibinwom’
Ghanaian singer Adina Thembi has opened up about the influences behind her decision to pursue highlife music. Adina made these remarks while speaking on the panel of Joy FM’s eighth Showbiz Roundtable hosted by Kwame Dadzie, where she expressed her love for the genre. “Growing up my grandmother used to sing ebibinwom i...
One week observance for highlife legend Ebo Taylor takes place this Saturday in Saltpond
According to the family, the memorial will begin at 6:30am at Wesley Methodist Church - Saltpond.
Amandzeba opposes calls to incentivise highlife winners at TGMA
Veteran highlife musician and Chairman of the Telecel Ghana Music Awards Board, Amandzeba, has expressed his disagreement with calls to offer special incentives to winners in the highlife categories.
The name ‘highlife’ was first written on paper in September 1925 – Prof John Collins
Renowned ethnomusicologist Professor John Collins has shed more light on the origins of the highlife music genre, revealing when the name first appeared in writing.
Adina traces her love for highlife to ‘ebibinwom’
Ghanaian singer Adina Thembi has opened up about the influences behind her decision to pursue highlife music.
Joy FM’s 8th Showbiz Roundtable to spotlight 100 years of highlife
Joy FM will on Saturday, March 14, 2026 host the eighth edition of its flagship creative industry conversation, Showbiz Roundtable, with a special focus on preserving highlife as Ghana’s cultural heritage.
Daddy Lumba: The Highlife Legend Whose Voice Defined Ghanaian Music
Charles Kojo Fosu, universally celebrated as Daddy Lumba, was a colossus in Ghanaian music, leaving an indelible mark on the highlife genre and beyond. Born on 29 September 1964 in Nsuta, Ashanti Region of Ghana, and passing away on 26 July 2025 at the age of 60, Lumba’s career spanned over four decades, producing an […]