Guy Warren

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Guy Warren of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba, died on May 1923 – "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and became a member of The Tempos alongside E. T. — who was best known as the pioneer of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and As a member of The Tempos.

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Warren's virtuosity on the African drums earned him the nickname "The Divine Drummer."

He also worked as a reporter, DJ, and broadcaster at various points in his life.

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Music career

Guy Warren began his career as a disc jockey in 1944 with various jazz services on the Gold Coast Broadcasting Corporation (later Ghana Broadcasting Corporation) and Z.O.Y. Accra is located in Ghana. He characterized his performance on the drums as love-making, noting that the African drums as a woman who could not be content. Although the punch and power of his playing quickly tore the vinyl coating on Western-made drums, the African drum skin skin covering the African drums remained intact. Nii Anum Telfer says he would always remember climbing on stage with Ghanaba. A firecracker will announce their arrival.

"Guyse Seth Paris writes, "Guiy was one of the first African-American musical styles to bring the African-American musical styles' influences into mainstream Ghanaian history." Guy Warren worked with Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists in the United Kingdom during 1948, and when he returned to Ghana, he helped with the country's return to Afro-Cuban rhythms.

He immigrated to the United States in 1954 and spent several years in the United States, but found no commercial success. Warren appeared backstage in authentic African attire for the first time before a show in the United States. However, the club's owner (African Room) was attempting to compel him to wear what he regarded as a "Uncle Tom" outfit with a tattered straw hat, which was the normal for Calypso and African musicians at the time. Ghanaba stubbornly refused to change, starting a trend that was copied both on and off stage.

"I had to choose either being a poor imitation of Buddy Rich or playing something they couldn't do," Ghanaba said in a 1973 interview with John Collins. I could play jazz well enough, but I wanted something nobody else had, so I started to play African music with a little bit of jazz, not jazz with a little African twist in."

Africa Speaks, America Answers, his first album, was released on Decca in 1956. It confirmed Ghanaba's status as a credible performer. It crossed-fertilized African and Western rhythms and brought true instrumentation into the genre. On Kaempfert's 1962 album A Swingin' Safari, Decca and German musician Bert Kaempfert produced an orchestral version of "That Good Feeling," the most famous song on Africa Speaks, America Answers' "America Speaks, America Answers."

Ghanaba served on the introduction of Themes for African Drums (RCA Victory, 1958), on which he wanted to use voices, drums, and trombone with African influence. He worked on this album with trombonist Lawrence Brown, who said that what Ghanaba was doing was unusual in jazz. Art Blakey and Randy Weston's cover version of "Love, the Mysterious of" were released, and they used it as his theme song for 40 years.

The Ghanaba was the number one drummer in Drum magazine's December 1959 readers. African Rhythms (Decca, 1962) had been intended to be published a year ahead of schedule by Columbia, but it was not to be released until a year later. He then joined Martin Salkin and Milt Gabler of Decca. In the Encyclopaedia of Jazz, Ghanaba is listed as a trailblazer who introduced African rhythms and instrumentation into mainstream jazz. The audience erupted on one occasion in the early 1970s when he hosted a concert at Accra's Ohene Djan Stadium. He had given up on live performances and started playing drums. He only had two albums in the 1970s: The African Soundz (RCA Victor 1972) and The Divine Drummer (1978).

He asked Nii Anum Telfer to locate a letter from Africa Obonu, later identified as Ghanababiy, a drums and percussion ensemble based in Accra that had written to Ghanaba. It was after Ghanababii were told that he would return to perform. He appeared at many shows, including the monthly Free South Africa shows that he and Nii Anum Telfer formed at the Accra Community Centre in solidarity with Nelson Mandela, who was in jail, and the people of South Africa protesting apartheid. Zagba Nkansah, Ofei Nkansah, Wendy Addae, Dorothy Gordon (Che-KACE), Tsatsu Tsikata, Fui Tsikata, Prof. Akaynor Tsikata, Tsokote, Naynor Tsikata, Prof. Andim Aggie, N. Oyyiynor-Mettle, Fortu, Kwaku Opokuoku hete, Their aim was to collect, preserve, archive, document, and promote African arts and culture. Ghanaba performed with an ensemble of gourd players from Benin during a Soul to Soul concert in Accra on March 8, 1971.

By the early 1980s, Ghanaba had migrated to Achimota and had his second daughter, Gye Nyame Hosanna Ghanaba. In 1983, in search of more peace and quiet, he migrated to Korleman village. Despite the fact that he had no major albums in this period, he remained active in Ghana's music industry. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Musicians Union of Ghana and served as its National President from 1989 to 1992, advocating the use of indigenous musical devices by Ghanaian musicians. Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" version was Ghanaba's best work. By Aklowa, the African Heritage Village, based in Takeley, England, he was enstooled as Odomankoma Kyrema (The Divine Drummer). In March 1986, three major concerts in honour of Africa's Contribution to the World took place at Royal Albert Hall in London. He appeared at the National Theatre, the Goethe-Institut, the DuBois Centre, and several other Ghana venues. In 2001, he appeared as The Divine Drummer in Margaret Busby's book Yaa Asantewa: Warrior Queen. It was produced by Adzido Pan-African Dance Ensemble, the African and Caribbean Music Circuit, Black Voices, the Pan-African Orchestra, and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, which toured the UK and appeared in Accra and Kumasi.

Ghanaba likes to share ideas with musicians. "I was the only one on earth who is crazy enough to deal with music the way I do," Robyn Schulkowsky, a female drummer from Germany, told Sabine Hentzch of the Goethe-Institut in Accra. Now I have to remember that there is another one on the internet: a woman, not a white one. He also founded and edited Hwe (Observation), a weekly newspaper that was published in 1992.

Ghanaba was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the W. E. Dubois Centre in Accra in February 2005 during Black History Month's celebrations. At a reception at the National Theatre in Accra on January 18, Ghanaba passed his drumsticks to his son Glenn "Ghanababa" Warren.

On December 22, 2008, Ghanaba was born in Ghana. Randy Weston, Obo Addy, and Kwaku Martin Obeng paid their respects at the Jazz Gallery in New York on June 21, 2009.

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