etebefia: brother you are there, if you ever listen to old school morocco you won't like what he is doing now, meanwhile do you have any of the old school?

Onyiibazz:

Wow, you must have a large collection. I love congolese songs as well, infact as a guitarist, you must know virtually every song you can think of. I started learning soukous of recent because it's a bit different from nigerian highlife. I enjoy zaiko langa langa and tp ok jazz!

stanuplane:
Tribalistic bigots. They re here again. They have to make anything and everything about their tribe. Make God help you people.

peppyluv02: No one mentioned 'ozoemena nwa nsugbe' or is that not high life?
Anyway,don't really know their names but i love them and they put me in a dancing mood especially at traditional weddings.

Eyop:
Brother i really do and am glad to have someone on the forum that enjoys the music same as i do. I think Diblo dibala is a fantastic Guitarist that's why they nicknamed him Machine Gun. There are other artiste i didn't list such as Pepe Kalle,Alain Kounkou,Alain Makaba,etc

Onyiibazz:

Yea, i have some videos of guitar transcriptions of Diblo Dabala, Pepe Kalle, and so many others, that's what am using to learn to play soukous! I just forgot to include Franco Lumumba, he's a good guitarist as well

Onyiibazz:

Yea, i have some videos of guitar transcriptions of Diblo Dabala, Pepe Kalle, and so many others, that's what am using to learn to play soukous! I just forgot to include Franco Lumumba, he's a good guitarist as well

EbuGeneral: In the memory of Able Sir Warrior, Chief Osita Osadebe, Oliver De Coque... R.I.P ... My current best high life musician is Chijioke Mbanefo...''onye Mmacha'', Bright Chimezie, Morocco nwa Mmaduka... My best high life music album is Osadebe in Atlanta(Chukwuma)

OdenigboAroli:

Your head dey there ;I like what I'm hearing from Chijioke Mbanefo but he has a long way to go.
But seriously, I don't think you have heard most of Osili's song because if you do you will trash that track,"chukwuma". Explore Osili music More and you will be blown away.
In my opinion, Osili is the most prolific highlife musician ever.
The man is a musical god.
He even said" Orimili kam si eje ,nmuo nmili zilum egwu"
Ezeafulukwe na Omenyi na Atani.
Gotta love him.

OdenigboAroli:

Your head dey there ;I like what I'm hearing from Chijioke Mbanefo but he has a long way to go.
But seriously, I don't think you have heard most of Osili's song because if you do you will trash that track,"chukwuma". Explore Osili music More and you will be blown away.
In my opinion, Osili is the most prolific highlife musician ever.
The man is a musical god.
He even said" Orimili kam si eje ,nmuo nmili zilum egwu"
Ezeafulukwe na Omenyi na Atani.
Gotta love him.

Eyop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT81Uf_kBis

CHIM0Z: Biko, is FLAVOUR not a highlife musician? Nobody is mentioning him.

dytbabe: Apala ni baba
Eye ma shagidi

Gimme the apala masters anyday anytime
Yusuf olatunji
Ayinla omowura
Musiliu Haruna ishola


Jamming SOYOYO right away
Nodding head and shaking body

OrlandoOwoh:
Ayinla Omowura and Haruna Ishola are apala musicians. In apala no electronic instrument is used just percussions and, sometimes agidigbo. The type played by Yusuf Olatunji is, in addition, made up of the same drums used by muslems during Ramadan.

Onyiibazz:

Am not too knowledgeable in classifying music but i must tell you that your flavour doesnt come anywhere near highlife. Check up the original meaning of highlife maybe google would help, but it was originally a type of music played for the elites of the society associated with high living standards hence the name high life!

OdenigboAroli:

Nne,Ozoemena's music belongs to the Ekpili genre.
Never heard from you again.

LyfeJennings:

Flavour is one of the best hi life musician of modern times. He combines everything tho

peppyluv02: Check your mentions of yesterday. I sent you a message.
Good morning

isaco: I like dis thread! Anyway, let's tell oursef d truth, if all dis artists all listed here play highlife, that means all Nigeria artists r all highlife artists except few. As a juju/highlife artist my self, n as a yoruba man, ther r hundreds styles of music in yoruba land not to talk of igbo, hausa, edo, benue settings etc. Even amidst hiphop artist today, their style differs. Yoruba has fuji, juju, pour highlife, waka, juju gospel, were, apala, awurebe, dadakuada etc, I nid someone frm other tribe to list ther style of music for 4 more idea. Thanks Ops.

Onyiibazz:

It's unarguable that you must have a problem of comprehension or that you dont understand simple english or that you're still a teenager who wasn't born in the era of highlife, otherwise you wouldn't even think of naming flavour, anyways i would still advice you to google what highlife in the original sense of it meant so that you stop classifying evry song that has a touch of local beats and percussions as hi-life!

OdenigboAroli:

I actually don't see anything tribalist about what he wrote.
Everybody have their own style and genre.
In Igboland we have Ekpili, Ogene, highlife, Ekwe,Ayaka, Igba and Udu for women folks.

Onyiibazz:

It's unarguable that you must have a problem of comprehension or that you dont understand simple english or that you're still a teenager who wasn't born in the era of highlife, otherwise you wouldn't even think of naming flavour, anyways i would still advice you to google what highlife in the original sense of it meant so that you stop classifying evry song that has a touch of local beats and percussions as hi-life!