Amakye Dede Celebrates 50 Years In Music

Abrantie Amakye Dede Highlife music legend, Abrantie Amakye Dede, will host a musical concert at the Dominion Centre in London on June 14, 2025, to commemorate his 50 years in the music business. The event is meant to bring his fans in UK together on one platform, have fun and dance to his favourite tunes that made waves some years back. Amakye Dede is organising the event to celebrate his achievements in the music scene, entertain his fans, and show appreciation for their support throughout the years. BEATWAVES gathered that he will be performing alongside some selected acts including KK Fosu. Details of other artistes billed to perform alongside the highlife legend would be made known soon. He is one of the dedicated highlife musicians in the country who are making si...

Our illiterate but very knowledgeable forefathers or ancestors, proverbially, had this to say, ‘’ The one who carries an orphan with a heavy load to walk through the muddy path does nothing but worsens his or her sorrow’’. The entertainment scene in Ghana, just as partisan politics, had tuned into something else as only the luckiest artiste or musician who makes hit songs are accorded the utmost recognition. This is not the situation elsewhere as with all due respect, ordinary music makers have their fairest share of the due with regards to royalties, once their livelihood is dependent on music as a career. This reminds me of the one-week observance of late Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, as in the perfection of peace may her soul and that of all departed musicians and ar...

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Amakye Dede Celebrates 50 Years In Music

Fate of Our Old, Ageing and Youthful Ghanaian Musicians