National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

Osei Tutu is from the West African country of Ghana. His sound is modern highlife.

Highlife music was an imported ballroom style music oriented to Ghana's privileged class. Starting in the late 1940s, bands began incorporating more West African melodies and rhythms into the sound. Modern highlife music adds electric instruments and a little Caribbean reggae flavor.

Tutu's lyrics call for an end to poverty, for women to be loyal to their men, for you to come and dance and party. This is pure '90s highlife: slick, high-tech, and rooted as much in American pop as in earlier West African music, flawlessly played.

— Courtesy Calabash Music