Daddy Lumba
Charles Kwadwo Fosuh (29 September 1964 – 26 July 2025), known professionally as Daddy Lumba, was a Ghanaian singer-songwriter, a Royal of the Asante tribe, musician, and record producer. A prolific and prominent figure in modern highlife, he is regarded as the greatest and most influential Ghanaian musicians of all time. Lumba was noted for his expansive songwriting, dynamic artistry, and musical longevity as well as his controversies. Rooted in Ghanaian culture and folklore, his lyrics touched on topics such as love, life, death, family, money, poverty, pleasure, grief, spirituality, and sensuality.
During the development of Germany-based Burger Highlife in the late 1980s, Lumba began his musical career as part of the Lumba Brothers duo with fellow Ghanaian artist Nana Acheampong. Both were migrants living in Germany at the time. They released their sole studio album, Yee Ye Aka Akwantuom, in 1989; the title track became a hit back home in Ghana and is considered one of the most celebrated songs in highlife music. Shortly after the duo disbanded in the early 1990s, Lumba embarked on a solo career and launched his own record label, Lumba Productions, an imprint of MiPROMO. He released a catalog of successful records over the course of several decades.
Lumba won seven Ghana Music Awards. He received the EMY Africa Awards' Icon/Legend of Entertainment award in 2018. In 2023, he was also given the Borga Highlife Lifetime Award by the German Ambassador to Ghana. In 2024, he was among the recipients of the National Honours and Awards. In 2025, his song "Mpempem Do Me" was included on an Apple Music-exclusive playlist curated by the UK's King Charles III for Commonwealth Day.
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