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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