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Teddy Osei Quotes

1935–2025 Ghana

Ghana

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Our music was exciting and inspired bands all over the world. We brought people together and made them happy. That is Osibisa’s legacy.

No, after doing the hard work in the studio, the time to enjoy is when you are on stage.

Music is not about creating for your local market alone. You must think of reaching as many people as possible while retaining what is essentially your identity in music.

It was time to get the Osibisa drums banging again.

My landlady was Greek and didn’t mind us playing our music.

My aim was to play professionally so I began to look for other Ghanaians who could join me.

I had wanted to be a musician ever since my father took me to the Asantehene’s palace to listen to the drummers.

In Ghana I was a name but not in England.

After the gig he came to our dressing room and announced ‘Now you are my babies’. It was an amazing moment. After that, we just exploded.

A star is not born in a day. You must learn and completely give yourself to what you are doing.I enjoyed being part of Osibisa because it is not all people who are cut out to be successful solo acts.

At my mention of Afro-beat king Fela, he says, I met Fela several time and he was a real fan of ours. Fela got all his rhythm side from Ghana.

After that, Stevie and I became very tight friends and he jammed with us again during our appearance at Festac in 1977 in Lagos stadium in front of 80,000 people.

We played a little bit of highlife, jazz, and James Brown, Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett – at the time American soul music was being played everywhere.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Teddy Osei (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.