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Before there was Afrobeat there was highlife – a joyful, good-times Ghanaian musical style that took on a new gloss in 1960s Nigeria. Praised for their ‘bewitching, colourful and easy-listening grooves’, Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms. Blending Igbo highlife – all bright horns, plucked guitar riffs and pulsing percussion – with jazz and soul, the brothers launched their careers with the influential 2020 album ROOTS (recorded in their living room) and have since collaborated with everyone from Wizkid to Angélique Kidjo and Davido.

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