Ebo Taylor

Put simply, there has never been a musician and artist quite like Ebo. As an artist, arranger, musician and producer He not only created some of the greatest funk songs ever recorded but as much if not more than that, his genius as an arranger gave the signature sound to high life and afrobeat that was made famous by his one-time London roommate (from when they were both music students, in The early 1960s) Fela. And his funky guitar brought a percussive sound to the rhythm section that didn’t exist before.
His work as an in-house arrangement producer for the Essiebons label, And even before that with classic high life bands like the stargazers and the Broadway dance band he helped define the equivalent of the Motown sound in the US across West Africa. Indeed,
But beyond his work as an arranger and session musician, his 1970s albums with singer Pat Thomas created a unique Ghanaian high life sound that was the perfect counterpoint to Fela’s harder Nigerian funk. Albums like Life Stories and Pelikans, Twer Nyame have all been reissued and joined by more recent albums in the last 15 years that brought him international acclaim and regular touring across Europe.