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George Darko’s Jazz Kings Band Rock Alliance Francais

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George Darko

On a night that saw their main lead George Darko missing in action, the Jazz Kings Band, usually an aiding sidekick on all of the King of Burger Highlife’s shows, gave patrons at the Goethe @ 50 Burger Highlife concert recently held in Accra, a good reason to cheer.

The band had stood in for George, who couldn’t make it to the concert due to reasons his handlers said, were not far from ill health.

But be it as it may, the Jazz Kings Band exhibiting a sheer breed of the excellence imbibed in them by their leader, displayed an ample trait of the mettle they are made of as their various renditions of George’s songs and that of other highlife greats, got the evening all spruced up.

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The concert was in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Goethe Institute in Ghana. The German cultural center couldn’t have been right when they tagged the night eclectic. Other performers on the night were Samini, Pat Thomas, Nana Yaa, Lee and Charles Amoah and Lee Duodo.

 

Proceeds from the concert according to Goethe, would go to the KINDER PARADISE Orphanage at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region. The Goethe @ 50 Concert was sponsored by MTN and Silver Star with support from the Alliance Français in Accra.

Good old George Darko learned traditional drumming and dancing as a child, and, inspired by a teacher who had made himself a guitar, he adopted the instrument. He started his professional career after leaving school and formed the band The Reborn Avengers. The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix have influenced his songs.

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After spending six months in Egypt with a United Nations peace keeping force, he moved to Germany in the early’80’s, where he helped to form Bus Stop, whose “Akoo Te Brofo” is a major landmark for burger highlife, as it transformed the face of Ghanaian music with it’s phenomenal success .

After two albums, George Darko added lead vocals to his role as the guitarist of Bus Stop on “Moni Palaver”, and when the group disbanded in 1988, he continued as a solo artist, bringing his contemporary flavour to his traditionally rooted compositions and arrangements.

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