Osibisa

Founded in London in the late 1960s by four West African expatriates and three Caribbean musicians from London, Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-rock band.

Along with such contemporaries as Assagai, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, Black Velvet and Noir, Osibisa were the most successful and longest-lived of the African-heritage bands in London, and they contributed greatly to the success and popularity of world music and Afro-Rock.

The original band which featured on the first three studio albums were universally known as the Beautiful Seven.

Throughout the 1970s, the band played to large audiences in Japan, Australasia, India, and Africa. In addition to Paul Golly (guitar), Kiki Gyan and Daku Adams "Potato" were also members of the band at this time. In 1980, Osibisa played at a special Zimbabwean independence celebration, and in 1983, they performed at the Marquee Club in London as a distant relative of the original band.

Remastered, remixed and re-recorded projects were released regularly from the mid-1990s onwards. Among these were previously unreleased material from the African Flight period, the incomplete follow-up, African Dawn, as well as the band's fourth live album, Aka Ka Kra.

Some of the albums by the band include Movements, Monsore, Urban Village (unreleased), African Dawn, African Flight, Osee Yee and New Dawn.