Mustapha Tettey Addy

Mustapha Tettey Addy

perc, dr, *1942 GH, Accra
Musician of World and Jazz

Mustapha Tettey Addy (born 1942 in Avenor, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian master drummer and ethnomusicologist. Addy is the founder of The Obonu Drummers, which performs creative drumming composed by Addy that is based upon the royal Obonu drumming of the Ga people and other Ghanaian drumming forms. He has recorded many albums and has performed extensively in Africa and Europe, and briefly in North America in the early 1970s and late 1990s.He founded the Academy of African Music and Arts (AAMA) at Kokrobite beach near Accra in 1988.

Instruments

Percussion
Drums
Cowbell

Genres

World
Jazz
Folk

Plays With

Reto Weber Percussion Orchestra

Kakraba Lobi

Popular Tracks

Ogbalegba on Come and dance by Mustapha Tettey Addy

Coming Home on Come and dance by Mustapha Tettey Addy

Pepe-didim, Pepe on Come And Drum by Mustapha Tettey Addy

Rythmes du culte Tigari on Les percussions du Ghana by Mustapha Tettey Addy

Nana, Na-na, Nana on Come And Drum by Mustapha Tettey Addy

African Sanctus: 9. The Lord's Prayer (The Offertory) on Fanshawe: African Sanctus; Salaams by David Fanshawe, Valerie Hill, Patricia Clarke, Harold Lester, Gerry Butler, Mustapha Tettey Addy, Gary Kettel, Terry Emery, Tony Campo, Martin Kershaw, Ambrosian Singers & Owain Arwel Hughes

Dum-tititi, Dum-titi, Kpasch-kpasch on Come And Drum by Mustapha Tettey Addy

African Sanctus: 2. Kyrie "Call to Prayer", Cairo on Fanshawe: African Sanctus; Salaams by David Fanshawe, Valerie Hill, Patricia Clarke, Harold Lester, Gerry Butler, Mustapha Tettey Addy, Gary Kettel, Terry Emery, Tony Campo, Martin Kershaw, Ambrosian Singers & Owain Arwel Hughes

African Sanctus: 1. African Sanctus, "Bwala" Dance of Uganda on Fanshawe: African Sanctus; Salaams by David Fanshawe, Valerie Hill, Patricia Clarke, Harold Lester, Gerry Butler, Mustapha Tettey Addy, Gary Kettel, Terry Emery, Tony Campo, Martin Kershaw, Ambrosian Singers & Owain Arwel Hughes

Herbal Man on Come and dance by Mustapha Tettey Addy

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Band Members

Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
Smart Boys	Mustapha Tettey Addy	2005	Album
Come and Dance	Mustapha Tettey Addy	2003	Album
Secret Rhythms	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1997	Album
The Royal Drums Of Ghana	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1988	Album
African Ritual Music	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1984	Album
Solo Drumming	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1984	Album
Master Drummer From Ghana - Volume Two	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1980	Album
Les Percussions Du Ghana	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1980	Album
Master Drummer From Ghana	Mustapha Tettey Addy	1972	Album

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