In 1969, Osei co-founded the pioneering Afro-Rock group Osibisa alongside fellow Ghanaian musicians Sol Amarfio and Mac Tontoh. The band's name, Osibisa, comes from a word in the Fante language ...
In 1969, Osei co-founded the pioneering Afro-Rock group Osibisa alongside fellow Ghanaian musicians Sol Amarfio and Mac Tontoh. The band’s name, Osibisa, comes from a word in the Fante language, ...
Osei rose to acclaim as the leader of Osibisa, where his boundless creativity as a multi-instrumentalist never conformed to a single genre.
Osibisa’s fame spread beyond the British Isles to continental Europe and eventually America where they became the first African group to achieve gold-record status with sales of more than ...
Released in 1971, the African-tinged record pioneered what would become world music, and took prog into fresh new waters too.
The music world and its fans saw plenty of heartbreak and tragedy in January with at least 20 notable musicians having lost ...
Beej Chaney, described as a punk rock hero in Minnesota, died on Jan. 5. Chaney, 68, who played with the band The Suburbs, ...