Ghanaian Highlife Legend, Nana Ampadu has reportedly passed on.
According to close sources, the musician died around 6am on Tuesday 28th September 2021.
However, the real reason behind his death was not disclosed as it has still not been discovered.
The grandson confirmed the passing of his late grand father on Hitz FM’s Daybreak Hitz and said the legend had been sick for a while.
He further noted that a family meeting was underway following the disturbing news.
NANA AMPADU
Nana Ampadu was born at Adiemmra on the Afram Plains in the Eastern Region of Ghana on 31 March 1945.
He was credited with numerous popular highlife tracks and he is known to have composed over 800 songs.
Ampadu’s “African Brothers Band” was formed in 1963. One of the founding members was Eddie Donkor. He came to prominence in 1967 when he released his song Ebi Te Yie (or “Some Are Well Seated”), a song that was seen as potentially critical of the then-governing National Liberation Council and disappeared from the airwaves, only returning after the end of military rule.
In 1973 he won a nationwide competition in Ghana to be crowned the Odwontofoohene, or “Singer-in-Chief”.
His musical career has also involved him in electoral politics, including composing a song for Jerry Rawlings’s National Democratic Congress party to use in the 1992 election campaign.
Ampadu also released a song critical of an attempt to disqualify Rawlings from the 1992 election based on him being half-Scottish.
