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Hello friends/ Hola amigos,

It's so nice to be back here again. I missed listening to your awesome voices and instruments.

For this week's theme "SING WITH ME" which was given by my good friend @jesuslnrs our spotlight artiste. I decided to team up with my friends @starstrings01, @mayorkeys and @heskay. @starstrings01 is playing the lead guitar, @mayorkeys is playing the keyboard, @heskay is coordinating from the background and I am also singing and drumming using a bottle as we do it traditionally.
This week we bring to you HI-LIFE music proudly made in Nigeria.

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WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC IS HIGH-LIFE?

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, High-life is a dance music of west African origin that combines syncopated African rhythms with elements of jazz text source

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highlife, type of West African popular music and dance that originated in Ghana in the late 19th century, later spread to western Nigeria, and flourished in both countries in the 1950s. The earliest form of highlife was performed primarily by brass bands along the Ghanaian coast. By the early 20th century these bands had incorporated a broader array of instruments (primarily of European origin), a vocal component, and stylistic elements both of local music traditions and of jazz. Highlife thus emerged as a unique synthesis of African, African American, and European musical aesthetics.
In the 1930s the popularity of highlife stretched inland and eastward along the coast, garnering an especially large following in Nigeria. There highlife experienced an important transformation: asymmetrical drum rhythms derived from traditional drumming practices of the Yoruba people were combined with syncopated (displaced-accent) guitar melodies to accompany songs sung in either Yoruba or English. By the mid-1960s, however, highlife had lost much of its audience to guitar-centred popular styles. One of these styles, a predominantly Yoruba-based outgrowth of highlife called juju, gained widespread international recognition in the 1980s and remained popular in Nigerian “hotels,” or nightclubs, into the 21st century.
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I grew up listening to great high-life sounds from Chief Osita Osadebe, Oliver de coque, celestine Ukwu, Sunny bobo and many others.

Now, we have modern versions and blend of Highlife music.

For today's high-life, we did a combination of 2 songs. First is Bottom belle by Omawunmi ft. Flavour and the second is the popular DUDUKE by Simi.

LYRICS

MUSIC - BOTTOM BELLE

Kokoma
I stand by
Adebisi Konga
Omawumi's baby
Ehn ehn, wonder
Kokoma
I stand by
Adebisi Konga
Omawumi's baby
Ehn ehn, wonder
Ehn ehn, wonder
Oga buy me bottom belle
Coolu my heart yeh
Oga buy me bottom belle
Coolu my heart yeh
Bonswe azikiwe
Bonswe ayoh ayoh
Bonswe azikiwe
Bonswe ayoh ayoh oh
Eh eh ayoh ayoh oh
Eh eh ayoh ayoh oh
Tell me say you like me
Me sef tell you my own oh
When e reach to buy me fine things
E wola da rite iyeh
If I tell you say make you do me better
Try understand
As a woman wey like plenty money
Oya show me you fit shake your body
You be chairman no be for mouth eh
Chairman do something, pamurege
Flavour, Omawumi, baby
Bottom belle
Abo ba bo ba bo ba bo
Abonsuwe
Flavour, Omawumi, baby
Bottom belle
Abo ba bo ba bo ba bo
Abonsuwe
The way you dey whyne am go down down low
E dey coolu my heart eh
The way you dey shake your bum bum bum
E dey coolu my heart
You want am for naira or dollars
You want am for pounds or euro
Anything for you baby
Coolu my heart
Oya dancia, dancia baby mi
Kporokoto Kporokoto ogini di
You dey coolu my heart eh
Kokoma
I stand by
Adebisi Konga
Omawumi's baby
Ehn ehn, wonder
Kokoma
I stand by
Adebisi Konga
Omawumi's baby
Ehn ehn, wonder
Ehn ehn, wonder
Flavour
Omawumi baby
Bottom belle
Abo ba bo ba bo ba bo
Abonsuwe
Flavour
Omawumi baby
Bottom belle
Abo ba bo ba bo ba bo
Abonsuwe
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MUSIC - Duduke

First let me say to you
I cannot wait to see you
You are the treasure I’ve been waiting for
Do you know, do you know?
How much I really need you
I dey pray for the day when
I can finally kiss you

You know say everyday I dey pray for you
Oh in my heart o, there’s a permanent place for you

That’s why my heart e dey beat like
Duduke, du-du-ke
'Cause na you I choose ooo
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe
I sing for you and I be like
Duduke, du-du-ke
Baby na you I go pick ooo
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe

Gbo temi ooo
See I may not give the world to you
But I’ll give you what I have oo
Oh baby oo
You’re my angeli ooo
Ko duro le ife mi oi

Shebi you know say everyday I dey pray for you
In my heart o, there’s a permanent place for you

That’s why my heart e dey beat like
Duduke, du-du-ke
'Cause na you I choose o
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe
I sing for you and I be like
Duduke, du-du-ke
Baby Na you I go pick o
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe

Only for you e dey beat like duduke oooo
Duduke du-du-ke
I sing for you o my baby ooo
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe
Duduke, duduke o
Duduke du-du-ke
Mo feran e oo
Ayanfe mi olufemi o
Ayanfe mi a-yan-fe

Baby see me now
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IMAGE OF @STARSTRINGS01 AND I

IMAGE OF @MAYORKEYS AND I

IMAGE OF @HESKAY AND I

Finally, my shout goes to my friends @starstrings01, @mayorkeys and @heskay for their collaboration and help. Much love guys😍

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Also, a big shout out to #hiveOpenMic family, the admin @cabelindsay , the moderators @mipiano, @jesuslnrs and my music friends. Much love😍

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