Mustapha Tettey Addy
Musical Artist
1942 –
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Who is Mustapha Tettey Addy?
Mustapha Tettey Addy is a Ghanaian drummer and ethnomusicologist. Addy is the founder of The Obonu Drummers, which performs creative drumming composed by Addy that is based upon the royal Obonu drumming of the Ga people and other Ghanaian drumming forms. He has recorded many albums and has performed extensively in Africa and Europe, and briefly in North America in the early 1970s and late 1990s.
He founded the Academy of African Music and Arts at Kokrobite beach near Accra in 1988.
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- Born
- 1942
Accra - Also known as
- Mustapha Tetey Addy
- Ethnicity
- Ga-Adangbe people
- Education
- University of Ghana
- Lived in
- Accra
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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