Dance the Body Music (1976) - Osibisa Credit for uploding this beautiful song on the Net should

go to Marina (nyrainbo w4), and I can see many people copying this on to different websites. No where ( the entire Internet sites) one will find this particular video song. I was looki ng forward to see the video of this particular song for quite a long time. I act ually wanted to get the feeling of how a live performance of this song will be, and after seeing this it exceeds above average expectations something like WOW c ategory. Thanks Marina for uploding it. Here on my channel I am trying to give a brief description about Osibisa along with this song Dance the Body Music. Osibisa is a British Afro-pop band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians. Osibisa were one of the first African ba nds to become widely popular, leading to claims of founding World Music. In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone) and Sol Amarfio (drums) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form The Comets, with Osei' s brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "Pete Pete." In 1962 Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music " band that combined highlife, rock and soul. In 1969 he persuaded Amarfio and T ontoh to join him in London, and Osibisa was born. Joining them in the first inc arnation were Grenadian Spartacus R (bass); Trinidadian Robert Bailey (keyboard) ; Antiguan Wendell Richardson (lead guitar); and Nigerian Lasisi Amao (percussio nist and tenor saxophone). Their music is a fusion of African, Caribbean, jazz, rock, Latin and R&B. Osibisas debut album displayed music whose rock references, especially in the gu itar solos, combined with vibrant African cross rhythms. The bands true power on ly fully came across on stage, when African village scenarios and a mastery of r hythm and melody summoned up energy and spirit. Woyaya reached number 11 in the UK and its title track was later covered by Art Garfunkel. During the late 70s t hey spent much of their time on world tours, playing to particularly large audie nces in Japan, India, Australia and Africa. In 1980 they performed a special con cert at the Zimbabwean independence celebrations. By this time, however, Osibisa s star was in decline in Europe and America. The band continued touring and rele asing records, but to steadily diminishing audiences. Business problems followed . After initially signing to MCA Records, Osibisa had changed labels several tim es, ending with Bronze Records. The moves reflected their growing frustration wi th British business, as each label in turn tried to persuade them to adapt their music to the disco style. Osibisa were prepared to make some concessions but on ly up to a point. In the mid-80s, the group directed their attention to the stat e of the music business in Ghana, planning a studio and theatre complex which ca me to nothing following the withdrawal of state funding, and helping in the prom otion of younger highlife artists. In 1984, Tontoh formed a London band to back three visiting Ghanaian musicians - A.B. Crentsil, Eric Agyeman and Thomas Fremp ong. An album, Highlife Stars, followed on Osibisas own Flying Elephant label. E ffectively disbanded, Osibisa occasionally staged reunion concerts before Osei p ut together a new line-up for 1996s Monsore. Sequel Records reissued much of the ir past catalogue in 1999, proving how good the band was and how surprisingly fr esh their music sounds. In 1996 Osei reformed the band, and many of their past releases began coming out on CD. The band remains active in 2009, although Osei has cut back his touring schedule due to the effects of a stroke.Many of Osibisa's works are highly dance able. A fair comparison would be to Earth, Wind, & Fire from the USA, but with a world flair. Both groups feature highly complicated and sophisticated dance mus ic with Afro-Caribbean bass-drum grooves and dynamic horn charts (example: Ojah Awake), and both groups could be criticized as insipid disco on titles which see k a more commercial appeal (example: Dance the Body Music, Lets Do It). The name Osibisa was described by the band members as meaning "criss cross rhyth ms that explode with happiness" but it actually comes from "osibisaba" the Fante word for highlife.Their style influenced many of the emerging African musicians

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