Keyboards - Bessa Simons, Kwame Yeboah (musician), Chris Jerome, Emmmanuel Rentzos, Errol Reid.Percussion, congas - Kofi Ayivor, Nii Tagoe, Daku Potato.Roger Dean's logo for the band continues to be used on every release. In 2009, their Osee Yee album featured the flying elephants once more, this time painted by Freyja Dean (Dean's daughter). Playing on the original flying elephants theme, the Ultimate Collection set features elephants with tank turrets for heads.
Osibirock features "Negro Attacked by a Jaguar" (1910) by Henri Rousseau. The third album, Heads, features a cover by Mati Klarwein, famed for his covers for Santana ( Abraxas) and Miles Davis ( Bitches Brew). Their first two albums featured artwork (and logo) by famed progressive-rock artist Roger Dean (before he became famous for his artwork), depicting flying elephants which became the symbol for the band. The group used to live in Kingsbury, North-west London, and the drummer Frank Tonto is the son of the band He also had the chance to work with Kiki Djan a few days before his death. Their style influenced many of the emerging African musicians of the time and even now, as Ace Ghanaian hip hop music producer Hammer of The Last Two stated that his debut production, Obrafour's 'paemuka' album, the highest selling hiplife album to date was inspired by a single song (Welcome Home) by Osibisa. The name Osibisa was described by the band members as meaning "criss cross rhythms that explode with happiness" but it actually comes from "osibisaba" the Fante word for highlife. Osibisa had an energetic performance in India, at the November Fest 2010 on at the Corporation Kalaiarangam in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The band remains active in 2009, although Osei has cut back his touring schedule due to the effects of a stroke. In 1996 Osei reformed the band, and many of their past releases began coming out on CD. In the 1990s their music was widely anthologized in many collections, most of them paying no royalties whatsoever to the band. The band returned to Ghana to set up a recording studio and theatre complex to help younger highlife musicians.
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Changes in the music industry however (punk and disco primarily) meant declining sales for the band, and a series of label changes resulted. In 1980 Osibisa performed at a special Zimbabwean independence celebration, and in 1983 were filmed onstage at the Marquee Club in London. During this time Paul Golly (died 1977) (guitar) and Ghanaians Daku Adams 'Potato' (died 1995) and Kiki Djan (died 2004) were also members of the band. The band spent much of the 1970s touring the world, playing to large audiences in Japan, Australia, India, and Africa. Their music is a fusion of African, Caribbean, jazz, rock, Latin, and R&B. Joining them in the first incarnation were Grenadian Spartacus R (bass) (born Roy Bedeau, 3 September 1948, Aruba, Grenada, West Indies died Friday 30 July 2010) Trinidadian Robert Bailey (keyboard) Antiguan Wendell Richardson (lead guitar) and Nigerians Fred Coker (bass guitar) and Lasisi Amao (percussionist and tenor saxophone). In 1969 he persuaded Amarfio and Tontoh to join him in London, and Osibisa was born. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul.
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They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh (born Kweku Adabanka Tonto, 25 December 1940, Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana died Monday 16 August 2010, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana) on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "Pete Pete." In 1962 Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. Osibisa were one of the first African heritage bands to become widely popular and linked with the world music description. Osibisa is a Ghanaian Afro-pop band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians.
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