Founding member of Osibisa Teddy Osei is dead

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  • AGBESI KWASI 11 months ago

    May his soul rest in peace. They made a great mark in the African music scene. "Heaven knows where we are going".

  • P k. 11 months ago

    Rest well Senior, my condolences to the family.

  • .Dot.uk 11 months ago

    Oh oh oh, Uncle Teddy! I never got to interview you!

  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 11 months ago

    Ghanaweb you always report people’s death without adding their age on the headline, can’t you learn from CNN and BBC or TMZ?

  • OMAN BA PA! 11 months ago

    THE FIRST ALL AFRICAN BAND IN ENGLAND AND OF COURSE EUROPE. IT TAKES ONLY AN ASANTE COURAGE TO FORM SUCH BAND IN EUROPE. BLEEDING IS ALLOWED.

  • PO10SHALL 11 months ago

    Osibisa was not an all-Afrucam band!

  • Fireman 11 months ago

    Great musician in the mould of Fela, Manu Dibango, Masekela and all those African music giants. May he RIPP

  • AESOP 11 months ago

    So now the Beautiful 7 have morphed into the Not-So-Beautiful 2: Robert Bailey and Dell Richardson. Criss Cross rhythms that explode with happiness! Yeah, and the root is early one morning in the heart of Africa!

  • Joe Wlly 11 months ago

    Stupid NAPO of NPP, this is one of the millions of "mo Kwame Nkrumah " products. Who created KNUST where you studied your " so called medicine"? Uncle Teddy, may you rest in peace.

  • Kwenty 11 months ago

    May his soul rest in peace

  • Baafi 11 months ago

    Take your nonsense somewhere, Kwame Nkrumah did not create KNUST. Shame on you should everything political?

  • Prayer 11 months ago

    Osibisa is greatest music export that ever came out of Ghana.The band went global.RIP Teddy Osei

  • Asking 11 months ago

    Why isn't this in the MAIN NEWS section?

  • Pelicles. 11 months ago

    Because it has no political color.

  • PO10SHALL 11 months ago

    "Methodist Rev Minister survives serious car accident" is in today's Main News Section. Where is the "political colour"?

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  • Son of Ghana 11 months ago

    This man took the name of Ghana very far .
    Many years ago in remote America when I mentioned Ghana they showed me osibisa album .

  • Alexander The Great 11 months ago

    In the year 2000,in the United States,I went to a very big American music store.After looking throughout the whole store,I saw only two Ghanaian albums
    1.OSIBISA
    2.KOJO ANTWI
    This Osibisa group really took Ghana's name fa ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: OKRAKU AND OTO MUST GO, NOW!!!!!! 11 months ago

    Rest in Peace. In 1962 the ghbgoct gave him a grant to study.music and drama at a private music school and this was the output. Why did gh stop investing in their own people? Instead, the leaders are after chopping and steali ...
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  • Accranie 11 months ago

    First of All We Will Like to Extend A Big Thank You to Hon.Momodu of Ovation Magazine Fame for Successfully Passing the Baton Unto Us. The Way We Store and Pass On Knowledge From the Passing to the Incoming Generation in Gh. ...
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  • Accranie 11 months ago

    Our Next Target is to Celebrate the yEARL;Y Statutory Award Scheme To HighLight Gh/African&Beyond Excellence,With Help From Our Much Cherish Partners
    So R.I.P Legend You'll Not Be Forgotten

  • FOYOOSIS 11 months ago

    RIP Mr Osibisa. Your legacy is great, legendary Teddy Osei. Though it's not mentioned in the report where you gave up the ghost, I guess it happened in London.

    May you rest peacefully in bosom of the Lord

  • AMARIYA 11 months ago

    STILL PLAYING OSIBISA SONGS

    They made me appreciate my culture in the early 1970s, wearing batakari, ahenemma sandals and even one stage tyre sandals. I will continue to play this group's song. One time I became an expert ...
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  • AMANO 11 months ago

    Who are the few left, mister osibisa expert?

  • Wo Nua 11 months ago

    I think Robert Bailey (Keyboards), Wendell Richardson (Lead Guitar) and Jean Dikoto Mandengue (Bass Guitar) are still around. I don't know if Mike Odumosu (Bass Guitar) is still alive. Any info???

  • AESOP 11 months ago

    Out of the founding members/original members, only Roberto and Dell remain. Mike is not a founding member of Osibisa but he is a finding mber of BLO.

  • AESOP 11 months ago

    Founding member of BLO

  • Wo Nua 11 months ago

    I was not talking about only founding members but musicians who passed through Osibisa. Another founding member was Loughty Lasisi Amao (saxophone and congas) who, also, died (from gunshot wounds after an altercation with a n ...
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  • Wo Nua 11 months ago

    Just remembered: Kiki Gyan (Keyboards) is also gone while Kofi Ayivor (Purcussion) is still alive and kicking.

  • NAF, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA ( VA ), USA 11 months ago

    ODUPON K3SE3 ATUTU! A GREAT HERO AND ICON OF MUSIC HAS FALLEN!! FARE THEE WELL AMANSIE DEHYE3 OF ASANTEMAN. YOUR LEGACY LIVES ON! " WE ARE GOING, HEAVEN KNOWS WHERE WE ARE GOING.... A GREAT SONG USED BY THE THEN OSOFO DADZIE ...
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  • Kwabena Boateng 11 months ago

    May his Soul rest in peace.

  • TERENCE NKRABEA 10 months ago

    OH SO SAD . A REAL HEAVYWEIGHT IN THE AFRICAN MUSIC SCENE AND BEING ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ONE OF THE MOST LONGEST REIGNING BAND. MY MOST FAVOURITE OF THEIR SONGS ARE CELEBRATION AND THE 1971 WOYAYA HIT SONG( WE ARE GOING ...
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  • Offei 10 months ago

    Rest In Perfect Peace Legend ... Your good works will never be forgotten