Kwame Yeboah

  • Kwame Yeboah
Producer
Principal country concerned : Column : Music
Gibraltar

Musician, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, recording- engineer and multi-instrumentalist currently based in London, UK, Kwame Yeboah's love for music led him all around the world working with international artists and back to his home country where he currently operates his recording studio, Mixstation, and is gaining growing success with his band Ohia b3y3 ya.
 
His father a veteran highlife musician, A.K. Yeboah, and his maternal uncle, the late Paa Gyimah, who was the guitarist for several bands and musicians, among those being Senior Eddie Donkor who´s neighboring house he spent a lot of time in, Kwame grew up surrounded by music, playing drums by age 5 and guitar by age 7, soon moving on to keyboards.  

At age 18, Kwame moved to Denmark to study Music (Arrangement and Harmony) and took up workshops with Jazz Artists and music tutors such as Michel Camilo and Danilo Pérez.
 
Kwame Yeboah relocated to the UK after being invited to work with Award-winning British Urban artist Ms. Dynamite, which was followed by many TV appearances and live shows. Now based in London, he moved on to working with many British artists such as MPHO, Daniel Bedingfield, Jamie Scott, Rhian Benson, Mis-Teeq, R'n'B/Garage heartthrob Craig David who he recently accompanied on his 2013 World Tour.[3]
Having toured and worked with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Omar, Shaggy, Another Level, Ken Boothe, Tom Jones and many more, Kwame is currently a member of the Supowers working and touring with Sierra Leonean-German Reggae/Soul artist Patrice Bart-Williams [4] as well as Cat Stevens´s Roadsters.
Despite not being in the same country for more than a month going from his home in London to stages all over the world, Kwame is continuously active in his home country Ghana and the Ghanaian music business. He has been known as the keyboardist and music director for Ghana´s number 1 selling artist Kojo Antwi. He is also a part of the Ghanaian Afro-pop band Osibisa
A priced musician in Ghana, winning the 2010 Ghana Music Award for Best Instrumentalist, Kwame operates his Mixstation Studio out of Accra, Ghana producing and promoting African artists such as Wunmi, Becca, Nana Yaa and Efya. As a musical director, he was responsible for shows like Vodafone Icons Reality Show and Red Lipsticks Concert. His Ohia b3y3 ya Band, also known as OBY, released their first single "Only you" in 2013.

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

With the support of