Reports reaching Awake News indicate that Highlife legend, Nana Kwame Ampadu has passed on.
Sources say, the 76-year-old fell sick in a swift and was rushed to the Legon hospital on Tuesday morning for treatment but died shortly.
Nana Kwame Ampadu, born March 31, 1945, is a Ghanaian by birth.
The songwriter, guitarist and singer hail from Obo-Kwahu in the Eastern Region.
He formed his African Brothers band in 1963.
Nana Ampadu shot into fame in 1967 with his ‘Ebi te yie’ track which many said was politically incited.
In 1973 he won a national competition to be crowned the ‘Odwontofoohene’.
He is known to have composed over 800 songs.
Nana Kwame Ampadu’s popular tracks include Ebi Ti Yie, Aku Sika, Kofi Nkrabea, Obiaa Ba Nnye, Woyoo Woyoo, Mother, Mentumi Ngyae Wo, Agartha, Aye Se Ye Do Wo, Drivers, Anibere Nnye, Obra, Oman Bo Adwo, Kwaata, et al.
Nana Ampadu’s song Obra, was very popular as it was the theme song for Akan Drama program (Obra) aired on GTV on Sundays.
During Jerry John Rawlings’s era, he composed a song for the National Democratic Congress party to use in the 1992 election campaign.
In 2018, Nana Kwame Ampadu amid Daasebre Akuamoah Boateng II, Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, other Nananom, then-NPP presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, Ministers of State, NPP foot soldiers, et al, unveiled ‘We Like Am So’, a song that demonstrated his sympathy for Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at Abetifi on Easter Saturday.
He announced God had sent him with the positive news that Nana Akufo-Addo has been already declared a winner in the spiritual realm and that all are just waiting for December for that to manifest, hence entreats all Kwahu citizens to support the winning side.
“Kwahu is my territory and the area harbours a lot of NPP stalwarts. They know I’m a prophet and they adore me. I know they will listen to me,”.
He had been known as a National Democratic Congress (NDC) sympathizer who sang at party rallies, together with other artists like the late Super O.D, Jewel Ackah and the late S.K. Oppong, urging people to vote for the NDC.
According to Nana Ampadu, he was led by the Holy Spirit to predict that Jerry Rawlings would win the presidential election in 1992 and 1996 and he was right.
“This new revelation came to me last January and I have said it elsewhere already that Nana Akufo-Addo has been ordained to rule this country after December,” he said then but the NPP candidate lost to Prof Atta Mills
Nana Ampadu said he would record his ‘We Like Am So’ song for the NPP campaign, regardless of the fact he would not go to the field to directly campaign, but would go anywhere God sends him to deliver a message.
In 1998, Nana Ampadu publicly declared his incursion into evangelism and dedication of his life to the service of God.
Besides music, politics seems to stir something in the man and God keeps speaking to him a lot about the subject per his prophecies.
