Blog September 26, 2012
Obo Addy Memorial
Friends
We've lost one of America's pioneering African artists. Born into the Ga ethnic group in Ghana, Obo came to the Pacific northwest in the late '70s to teach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Afropop's Banning Eyre recalls seeing his "Afropop fusion" band in Oregon in 1982, years before the word "Afropop"--let alone our radio program--had even been conceived. And Obo kept going through all the twists and turns in the road that came afterwards. Truly this was a man ahead of his time, and he will be deeply missed by so many whose lives and musicality he touched and shaped.
Here is information on a public memorial service for a great man!
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