Ebo Taylor, pictured here in 2011, started performing in his teens in the 1950s
Ebo Taylor, the Ghanaian guitarist, composer and band leader whose work helped define the highlife genre and influenced generations of African musicians, has died at the age of 90, his family has announced.
Born Deroy Taylor in the city of Cape Coast in 1936, he rose to prominence during the late 1950s and early 1960s as highlife became Ghana’s dominant musical form.
Over a six-decade career, he fused Ghanaian rhythms with jazz, funk, soul and early Afrobeat and…
