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OWURA; GUITARIST AND COMPOSER COMPARABLE TO THE BEST... |
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OWURA MUSIC PLAYER |
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Owura was born on 27 June 1978 in Akyim-Tafo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He is the second born and only son of three children.
His father is a cocoa research officer and his mother a trader of foodstuffs. He attended a Roman Catholic school in Kukurantumi. His urge to play music began at the age of 10 years, after seeing a military band perform at his uncle’s funeral.
His decision to play the guitar came from his observations that were very few guitarists playing for his church band.He then started with his make-shift guitar of firewood and a metal wire which he obtained from a curtain in his home. |
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Owura would go to church early on Sunday just to get the opportunity to hold a real guitar while helping the senior members set up the instruments. Since the few church guitarists were mainly base guitarists and there were no lead guitar teachers, he started experimenting on his own and mastered songs that he already knew through constant practice.
He also begged the church guitarist to allow him to play once in a while during service but, of course, this was not done often. Once, while in school, he had the opportunity to play for a band at a funeral. Amazingly, he played so excellently that he was asked to stand in for the lead guitarist at another function after this...
He was found to be very proficient at the songs he already knew, and was seen to improvise well with the songs he was not so familiar with. This eventually earned him a place in the band as a full member. Because of Owura’s unique style and approach to music, he was chosen out of many musicians, some of whom were his childhood friends, at an audition for the in-house band at the National Theatre.
He also performed with the same group of musicians backing the legendary Hugh Masekela. He later joined the Magic System band from La Cote d’Ivoire. |
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THE LEGENDS AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS |
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Hugh Masekela; Flugel horn/Trumpet virtuoso and music legend “Owura is a fantastic guitarist”…
Owura for years performed with the same group of musicians backing the legendary Hugh Masekela...
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During Stevie Wonder’s visit to Ghana, He met with Owura and encouraged him to, "keep playing and learning while respecting pioneers of good music as this would take him far"...
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Kojo Antwi; "Owura you're good and your humility will take you places you never dream't "... Owura has performed and toured with Kojo's band immersely.
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TWEET ME! |
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Carlos Sakyi ”Owura is a star”.
Carlos Sakyi a researcher and a copyright advocate and member of the Scratch Studios record label.
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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT; OWURA PERFORMS "LIVE" @ +233 JAZZ CLUB, ACCRA-GHANA |
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SCRATCH STUDIOS UNVEILS OWURA
THERE HAS been so much buzz about Owura, a seasoned Ghanaian guitarist who has in recent times been compared to and referred to as the Carlos Santana of his generation.
Owura, who was born on 27th June 1978 in Akyim-Tafo in the Eastern Region of Ghana, is an artist signed on to the Scratch Studios Music label and started stringing the guitar from a very young age. According to him, he fell in love with the instrument when he witnessed the military band perform at his uncle’s burial as child. |
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According to him, he fell in love with the instrument when he witnessed the military band perform at his uncle’s burial as child.
Owura has been to several countries in the world and various music festivals like the Algerian music festival and Libya’s African music festival, he played at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and also featured on the Dream! Child Concert held at the Ghana National Theatre, alongside renowned musicians like Ben Brako, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Pat Thomas, Paulette Broohm, Steve Bedi, Freeman Ame, Akosua Agyepong…
The Scratch Studios record label has worked closely with Owura on a creative level to produce his maiden album “Just Imagine”. The album is a mixture of contemporary jazz intertwined with African rhythms to create the Syncos sound.
Scratch coined the expression Syncos to describe a unique style broadly described as synchronized soul and jazz; Owura is inspired by the likes of Richard Bona, Peter White, Jim Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Hugh Masekela. According to Hugh Masekela; “Owura is a fantastic guitarist”…
The album launch concert, which will be held at the Scratch Music Lounge at the Guest Hotel, East Legon Accra on 26th August, is expected to attract all major players in the music both local and international…. |
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