Guitar Band Highlife VI

Nigeria

	Developed out of the Ibo palm-wine styles with influences from Ghana and Sierra Leone
	1970’s Super Ikenga’s Stars of Africa
	1976 Prince Nico Mbarga

Burgher Highlife

	1989 George Darko
	1990’s Lumba Brothers

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Nigeria
Developed out of the Ibo palm-wine styles with influences from Ghana and Sierra Leone1970’s Super Ikenga’s Stars of Africa1976 Prince Nico MbargaBlend of Zaire, Cameroon and Nigeria music.

Burgher Highlife
Late 1970’s High Tech HighlifeHamburg and Berlin, GermanyGeorge DarkoHit’s include “Highlife Time” and “Money Palava”Studied Guitar with Koo Nimo1990’s Lumba Brother’s added hip-hop to highlife