| Throughout his career he has experimented with diverse musical genres as rumba, soukous, salsa, highlife and Afrobeat. |
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| With highlife, African music had proved its resilience and ability to absorb and synthesise foreign influences. |
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| During the decline in highlife late '60s, Olaiya, a Yoruban, was one of the few Nigerians who continued to make a living from it. |
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| Thousands of revelers attended the early-morning events, which included a highlife and hiplife concert, traditional dancing, and a military parade. |
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| The most popular indigenous musical style today is a blend of Cuban merengue, Congolese rumba, and West African highlife sounds, reflecting the many influences that meet in Congo. |
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| For example, Fela Kuti, an illustrious neighbour whose highlife included an American experience in 1969 before he returned to Nigeria and created afro-beat. |
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| In his youth Ade played highlife, a type of urban dance music that emerged in Ghana in the late 19th century and blended elements of church music, military brass-band music, sea shanties, and various local African traditions. |
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| In the mid-1960s abandonedoned highlife for juju, a related musical genre that arose in Nigeria in the 1920s as an expression of the urban Yoruba working class. |
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| Enjoying the same stature as the star of the genre, the Ghanaian E. T. Mensah, he played highlife mixed with twist, rock 'n' roll and Congolese rumba, which was completely new in Accra at the time. |
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| Like a nod to the Ghanaian brass bands the young Sorry used to watch rehearsing when they came to Mopti to play highlife for their compatriots as they fished in the Niger's abundant waters. |
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| Formed in 1951 by the saxophonist Oumar Ndiaye, the group Les Déménageurs made the innovative move of embarking on a long African tour with a vast repertoire that included jazz, tango and Ghanaian highlife. |
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| The introduction of highlife music to Nigeria in the mid fifties by Ghana's E. T. Mensah revolutionised the music industry and led to the proliferation of bands that played highlife music with a truly Nigerian flavor. |
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| He also described current or recent African forms such as juju, kwela and highlife, and showed how some African-American idioms had refashioned the music of their mother country. |
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| Afri Kokoa Festival Rich Mix, London, Saturday Soundway Records chief Miles Cleret will be bringing African funk-soul before residents AJ Kwame and Baggy play a mix of Afrobeat, roots, highlife and reggaeton. |
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| He takes elements of reggae, soul, highlife, cumbia and Ethiopian jazz and gives them enough of an electronic edge to provide the necessary pulse for a club. |
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| Hot Border Special bost an eclectic mix of styles, with Influences ranging from afrobeat to rock, highlife to funk, and even a hint towards samba. |
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| The pitch and the facilities at Bught Park are fantastic and we'd like to thank Highlife Highland for making it possible to train at the venue. |
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| The 1950s through the 1970s saw a conglomeration of these various styles with the popularization of Afrobeat and Highlife music. |
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| Highlife originated in the late 19th century and early 20th century and spread throughout West Africa. |
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| In 2005, Highlife, the British Airways magazine, declared it one of the world's Top 10 Funky Towns. |
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| This group was to become to modern Manding music what E T Mensah was to Ghanaian Highlife, what Mahlathini was to Mbaqanga and what I K Dairo was to Nigeria's Juju music. |
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