{"id":235242,"date":"2016-07-29T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235242"},"modified":"2016-07-29T09:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:43:05","slug":"daasebre-gyamenah-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/daasebre-gyamenah-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Daasebre Gyamenah passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"
Highlife musician Daasebre Gyamenah has died after a short illness.<\/p>\n
He died in the early hours of Friday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n
Brother of the musician, Martin Appiah Kubi confirmed the news to citifmonline.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Appiah Kubi stated that he “received\u00a0a call from a Nurse at Korle Bu this morning” informing him of his brother’s death.<\/p>\n About Daasebre\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Daasebre Kojo Gyamenah is a highlife musician who became very popular for his debut hit \u2018Kokooko\u2019 in 1999 which featured Lord Kenya.<\/p>\n This song was one of the major fusion of hiplife and highlife in Ghana and meant a successful career for both musicians.<\/p>\n In 2006, Daasebre was imprisoned in the United Kingdom for possession of drugs and was later acquitted of the offence.<\/p>\n But this didn\u2019t stop him from releasing another album called \u2018A Friend In Need\u2019.<\/p>\n The song became a hit on Ghanaian radio charts with the popular songs \u2018Seetei\u2019, \u2018Wafom\u2019, \u2018Ahuofe\u2019.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Highlife musician Daasebre Gyamenah has died after a short illness. He died in the early hours of Friday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Brother of the musician, Martin Appiah Kubi confirmed the news to citifmonline.com. Mr. Appiah Kubi stated that he “received\u00a0a call from a Nurse at Korle Bu this morning” informing him of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137,10,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n