Six decades of shaping how Ghana sounds, and the man who blended highlife with funk and jazz is finally getting his send-off in Saltpond. Ebo Taylor passed at 90 earlier this year, and his family has now laid out the arrangements.
A private lying-in-state comes first, followed by a burial service at Wesley Methodist Church in Saltpond. Victoria Park is where he'll be interred afterward.
His run was ridiculous. Highlife pioneer, Afrobeat architect, a guy who mashed jazz and funk into the mix and left fingerprints on generations of players across the continent and well past it.
The collab list alone tells the story. Pat Thomas, C.K. Mann, and Fela Kuti himself all worked alongside him. Beyond the studio, he spent years mentoring younger musicians and steering their careers.
Tributes have been rolling in since word spread, with plenty of people calling his catalog timeless and his reach permanent.
That catalog is the real inheritance here, along with every artist who picked up something from his sound and ran with it.
A private lying-in-state comes first, followed by a burial service at Wesley Methodist Church in Saltpond. Victoria Park is where he'll be interred afterward.
His run was ridiculous. Highlife pioneer, Afrobeat architect, a guy who mashed jazz and funk into the mix and left fingerprints on generations of players across the continent and well past it.
The collab list alone tells the story. Pat Thomas, C.K. Mann, and Fela Kuti himself all worked alongside him. Beyond the studio, he spent years mentoring younger musicians and steering their careers.
Tributes have been rolling in since word spread, with plenty of people calling his catalog timeless and his reach permanent.
That catalog is the real inheritance here, along with every artist who picked up something from his sound and ran with it.
