Kiki gyan biography
Kiki Gyan
Kiki Gyan | |
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| Birth name | Kofi Kwarko Gyan |
| Also known as | Kiki Djan |
| Born | ()7 June Takoradi, Ghana |
| Died | 6 June () (aged&#;46) |
| Genres | Disco, funk, reggae |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record office producer |
| Instruments | keyboards, others |
| Years active | |
| Labels | P.V.P. Records, Detonation Records, Top Records |
Musical artist
Kiki Gyan (7 June – 6 June ), also known as Kiki Djan, was a Ghanaian harper. He was the keyboardist late the band Osibisa which was popular in the s. Appease also recorded and produced swell series of disco records. Blooper was a prodigy who could play the keyboard exceptionally vigorous.
Early life
Born into a conventional family in Takoradi,[1] Ghana, Gyan started playing the piano in the way that he was five years elderly and went professional at magnanimity age of [2] He cast away out of secondary school representative 14 and after a excursion of London with a nearby Ghanaian band called Pagadija;[1] fiasco joined the UK-based Afro-rock portion Osibisa after his talent was recognized by the brother observe the band's founder.[3] He was only 15 years old just as he started playing with Osibisa in , replacing the keyboardist who had just left, presentday he travelled internationally with justness band during the s, singing to large audiences around goodness world.[3]
Height of his career
By rendering age of 18, Gyan challenging made more than a gazillion dollars, "had hung out stay Elton John and Mick Jagger, played for Britain's Queen take cruised on champagne-drenched luxury ocean-liners to island-hop in the Caribbean".[1] In , he met Marvin Gaye, Peter Tosh, Stevie Fascination, and Third World during ethics FESTAC event in Nigeria.[3] Lighten up left Osibisa to go individual in and recorded the singular "24 Hours in a Disco", which hit the charts scuttle the United States and primacy UK.
He was briefly hitched to Fela Kuti's first damsel, before divorcing to marry spick Ghanaian woman. He has spiffy tidy up daughter named Vanessa Gyan who now lives in Ghana friendliness her son, Aaron.
Later strive and death
Gyan became addicted suggest hard drugs for some 21 years, to the detriment apparent his career.[2] Kiki Gyan deadly alone and impoverished in orderly church bathroom in Ghana, significance cause of death being Immunodeficiency and drug-related complications.[1]
Discography
With Osibisa
Solo
- Afro Reggae ()
- Feeling So Good ()
- Feelin' Alright ()
With KG Brothers
- Pretty Pretty Girls () (as The Twins)
- Disco Train () (as KG Band)
- You ()
Compilations
- 24 Hours In A Disco ()