Mustapha Tettey Addy

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Mustapha Tettey Addy (born 1942 in Avenor, Accra, Ghana) is a renowned Ghanaian drummer and ethnomusicologist. Addy is a member of the Ga ethnic group and is the founder of The Obonu Drummers, which performs creative drumming composed by Addy that is based upon the royal Obonu drumming of the Ga people and other Ghanaian drumming forms. He has recorded many albums and has performed extensively in Africa and Europe, and briefly in North America in the early 1970s and late 1990s.

He founded the Academy of African Music and Arts (AAMA) at Kokrobite beach near Accra in 1988.

[edit] External links

• Mustapha Tettey Addy biography from weltwunder.com site
• Article about Addy family

[edit] See also

• Ga people

[edit] References

1. Duckworth, Katie (2002-10-13), "Quiet please. Drum lesson in progress", The Independent, http://travel.independent.co.uk/africa/article140055.ece, retrieved on 2007-10-16