Veteran Ghanaian highlife legend Nana Ampadu has reportedly passed on.

According to reports sighted by Cedidollar.com, the ‘Ɔman Bo Adwo’ hitmaker died on Tuesday morning.

Nana Ampadu died at the age of 76.

Background:

Nana Kwame Ampadu (born 31 March 1945) was a Ghanaian musician credited with numerous popular highlife tracks and he is known to have composed over 800 songs.[Ampadu’s “African Brothers Band” was formed in 1963. One of the founding members was Eddie Donkor.

He came to prominence in 1967 when he released his song Ebi Te Yie (or “Some Are Well Seated”), a song that was seen as potentially critical of the then-governing National Liberation Council and disappeared from the airwaves, only returning after the end of military rule. In 1973 he won a nationwide competition in Ghana to be crowned the Odwontofoohene, or “Singer-in-Chief”

His musical career has also involved him in electoral politics, including composing a song for  late former President Flt Jerry Rawlings’s National Democratic Congress party to use in the 1992 election campaign. Ampadu also released a song critical of an attempt to disqualify Rawlings from the 1992 election based on him being half-Scottish.

The Highlife music maestro released hit songs like Ebi Ti Yie, Aku Sika, Kofi Nkrabea, Obiaa Ba Nnye, Woyoo Woyoo, Mother, Mentumi Ngyae Wo, Agartha, Aye Se Ye Do Wo, Obra, Drivers, Anibere Nnye, Oman Bo Adwo, Kwaata and many others were popular at different times.