It may be easy to take the current massive impact of African music on the global stage for granted without reckoning with the contribution of the forerunners who decades ago opened the world’s eyes and ears to the rhythms of the continent.
Among the iconic pioneers of contemporary African music is a band that was the brainchild of a group of Ghanaian musicians in the early 1970s and took the world by storm with an electrifying hybrid of their country’s highlife grooves, Caribbean sounds, jazz, funk and soul.
