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Eric Agyeman made his name as a roots guitarist with Dr. K. Gyasi and His Noble Kings, a band in the Ashanti capital of Kumasi, which he joined in 1972.

The young Eric Agyeman had started his career playing highlife and Western pop in the Kumasi-based guitar band The Afro Boateng Midnight Movers in 1963, first as a drummer and then as a guitarist. By 1972 he had joined Kwame Gyasi as guitarist, singer and arranger for his band known as Dr. K. Gyasi and His Noble Kings.

Rising quickly to become bandleader, Agyeman together with singer and drummer Thomas Frempong developed a vibrant new form of music, "Sikyi" highlife, which was to revolutionize highlife music and influenece a string of younger talents. —Courtesy Calabash Music