Koo Nimo Palmwine Quartet - 4 - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2007

Performance - 30 June 2007
Koo Nimo (born Kwabena Boa-Amponsem on 3 October 1934, baptized Daniel Amponsah) is a leading folk musician of Palm wine music or Highlife music from Ghana.
Born in the village of Foase, in the Atwima District of the Ashanti Region in Ghana, West Africa, he worked in various jobs in science and medical-related field while maintaining his interest in music. In 1957, when the former British colony of the Gold Coast became the independent country of Ghana, Koo Nimo first received national acclaim through the formation of the Addadam Agofomma ensemble. Many of his songs tell traditional stories and are sung in the language Twi. Along with one or two guitars and vocals, the traditional Ashanti palmwine ensemble consists of traditional instruments of West Africa, including the apentemma and the donno, the frikyiwa (metal castanet), the prempensua (rhumba box), the ntorwa (hollow gourd rattle with beads or seeds woven around it on a net), and the nnawuta (consisting of two iron bells that provide the key rhythmic pattern) or dawuro (banana-shaped bell).
In 1979, in recognition of his services to Ghanaian music as performer, teacher and administrator, Koo Nimo was elected President of MUSIGA (the Musicians' Union of Ghana). His countrymen appreciated not only his music, but his love of and respect for tradition. In 1985 Koo Nimo was appointed interim chairman of COSGA, the Copyright Society of Ghana, More recently he has been made an honorary life member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, along with such distinguished names as Professor J.H.K. Nketia and John Collins. In 1990, eight of Koo's songs were released as a compact disk entitled Osabarima. This was the first work by a Ghanaian artist to be put on CD. In the words of High Fidelity Magazine (September 1990, 103). In February 1991, in recognition of his services to music and to his country, Koo received the prestigious Asanteman award from the Asantehene. In March, he received the Flag Star award from ECRAG (Entertainment Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana). In 1991, he was invited to serve on the National Folklore Board of Trustees. In January, 1992, at Columbia University, New York, USA, Andrew L. Kaye presented his dissertation entitled Koo Nimo and his circle: A Ghanaian Musician in Ethnomusicological Perspective and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for his work. In March 1997, the Ghana government celebrated the fortieth anniversary of independence by awarding gold medals to forty of its distinguished citizens, one of whom was Koo Nimo. This was in recognition of his efforts to preserve traditional culture. In the next month he received the Konkoma Award for his contribution to Ghanaian Highlife Music.
In 1998, Koo was employed as a Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, for two years, before taking a similar position at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As of 2006, Koo Nimo has moved back to Ghana and is currently living in Kumasi.

[@HARRIETEWUSIE-OCRAN-vn9ci]

Who is watching in 2024 ✌🏿✌🏿

[@user-br7wh3tf8x]

I am A Gen Z but I love this kind of music...It`s 2024 and I`m here

[@justicesagada7699]

When M.anifest said "I pen Poems Alone listening to Nina Simone and Koo Nimo " Now I understand

[@ariesskylar489]

You probably dont give a shit but if you're bored like me during the covid times then you can stream all of the new series on Instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my brother lately :)

[@guslionel9360]

@Aries Skylar yup, been watching on InstaFlixxer for since december myself :)

[@prindustv4377]

There is wisdom in traditional Ghana high-life music.

[@akwasiboateng7698]

THE MEANING In Ghana there is a system of farming when a group of farmers will go and work in one farmers farm for a day and that will be done for all the farmers. The music said death is like that kind of farming. When you dont attend funerals, when your relative also die, no one will come. And he said a long story to expanciate this point.

[@nanakuamisam812]

You’re absolutely right on your explanation ❤

[@Dn90]

The meaning I was looking for. Thank you chale

[@user-zy3gl4qt7d]

Evergreen Ghana Hi-Life Music will forever rule the world of music. Agya Koo Nimo is a great Music legend by all standards. Ghanaians must honor their heroes alive.

[@edmundboateng9260]

Who is still watching in 2019? Great instrumental, good ghanaian music

[@fatherswealth]

Yes ooooooo

[@jakebaba2149]

Yes, I am watching in 2019. This is great Ghana music and I enjoyed it as child in Ghana and still enjoying it in my retiring years. Wow.

[@josephadobor1462]

Even in 2020, am watching

[@josephadobor1462]

Its a pity the White man celebrates and enjoys our indigenous music while we lazily idolize contemporary hiplife ... Why can't we organise this type of event and pay our legends properly like we do to the young ones

[@Mystr438]

Still listening 2021!

[@twikwamegh397]

"Men can't travel beyond the boundaries of time" That part in the music is deep!

[@authorvams]

Too deep. A fact of life so simply stated.

[@MsVictory2000]

Love this song.He says a lot about life, death and supporting one another in this song but yes death is everybody's business. One Person does not bury a coffin.

[@FootballisinmyDNA-jo8us]

Agya Koo Nimo, the grand legend, he is still strong and alive

[@tayeolatokunboh1167]

Very enjoyable. Didn't understand a single word of this but that didn't stop me grooving to it. Lovely stuff.

[@chiefapostleisaackarikaria5887]

Taye Olatokunboh He was saying that we should learn to support each other especially during bereavement. don't just stay somewhere and send money. even though money is good, at times yours presence does a lot. money is not everything

[@akwasiboateng7698]

In Ghana there is a system of farming when a group of farmers will go and work in one farmers farm for a day and that will be done for all the farmers. The music said death is like that kind of farming. When you dont attend funerals, when your relative also die, no one will come. And he said a long story to expanciate this point.

[@yawamponsahamoah536]

This is great Akan traditional music. It makes the soul cool. Highlife time says Koo Nimo. I really like listening these type of music.

[@kwameatakora1322]

Koo Nimo songs is the dose that keeps me on my feet. You reach deep in millions of souls and hearts.

[@YawAnsong]

So pure and didactic. I wish they understood the wisdom in what he was saying. We need more pure music like this in Ghana

[@onasis.x]

They always kept it pure and clean wherever they went and still made a difference.LOVE THE MUSIC!! Nowadays we want to copy the west.Too many mainstream.Nothing pure! like this. This variety is needed.

[@isaacmugunda8370]

The percussion player is giving me goosebumps with his high pitch... In Kenya we call this music Omutibo from the Luhya

[@jubalchordz541]

He’s called Osei Kwame ❤

[@NEWAFRIQUE-TV]

This is our culture. I can't hold my tears 😭😭😭

[@Chanitschka333]

It seems to be my culture as well. The source of mankind.

[@kwakuadomako8333]

@@Chanitschka333 hello dear

[@michaelowusu4972]

Proudly made in Ghana. Agya Koo Nimo the Legend. I salute, Sir.

[@yawasamoa5447]

Nice song which wet my appetite for a good drink

[@joe-popbachofen8688]

Koo Nimo . . . you make my heart dance . . . and my feet follow.

[@cedispesewas3788]

Aja Koo Nimo, you are a genius!

[@africancaribbeanmusic8050]

Oh grandpa God bless you

[@samabeka3023]

Life is very short indeed,one should therefore never think that someone's death is none of his business,because no single person has ever carried a coffin to the graveyard to bury it !

[@cedispesewas3788]

Wonderful sounds from just 4 great musicians.

[@amoakomaxwellfrimpong6258]

Super high life time, best music in the universe

[@kwamebadu9981]

I love how they have dressed infact the African spirit

[@stevenarmoo7011]

I'm proud to be Ghanaian... beautiful performance!

[@yeboahisaac9486]

2023 and I’m still here😁❤️

[@kwengagrooves2805]

This man is a living legend

[@anokyeaugustine8005]

The true legend Agya koo nimo

[@aikasirifikofi152]

Just so lovely. It sends my mind back to ancestry and forth the future. So melodious and much contented.

[@hyacinthekouakou6640]

Condoléances à tous ceux qui ont perdu un être cher

[@jkofi2927]

You must be on tramadol to dislike this music.Legend.

[@skmohiuddinbangladesh7433]

Advice through music

[@danskey2001]

First to watch in 2022

[@livingstonmutabarukajr4215]

but we're in 2024 and i am still monetizing

[@elishabondziehanson6128]

Here in 2023. I love this

[@Polaxky]

Wooow. This is Music. Pure music.

[@danieltuffour7969]

2021??

[@debbie6526]

This was so aesthetically pleasing 💕💕💕

[@nartehayiku153]

Koo Nimo was a friend for so many years. I have lost him for some years now. I wish to have his phone contact...

[@ayeshagaddafi3923]

I‘m his Grandson

[@christiantvgh5790]

I wish I could meet this great man of all time in a lifetime before death do us apart

[@alexbonsu5100]

Great, a legend

[@kwengagrooves2805]

If the whites understand what he was saying ,it would have been something else

[@abigailfosubonsu3740]

Lovely song

[@kwakumoro9010]

Best export from Ghana. Amazing talent

[@kwengagrooves2805]

Music is powerful

[@Chanitschka333]

Simply wonderful.

[@nanasarfo3817]

This is what is called high life.

[@Truth-Reality.]

Palm wine music 🎶 so much soul ♥

[@princessnaa6145]

Great legends

[@pearlashia6256]

Classic.

[@kamanumusic]

Art

[@emmanuelfrankadufati6296]

What a good music, how can I get this video cassette to purchase in Accra, please

[@keyspapabi9155]

Beautiful

[@KayBenyarko]

Wow!

[@samuellotarloo753]

Nice one there

[@ikelvinos]

classic

[@b3t471]

“Death is every-bodies business” **couples start kissing**

[@bladeville69]

I purposely came to read comments for this😂

[@OkuniniKwameAka]

Pls who can tell me the name of the man on Koo nimo's left.. He does these performances n am trying to get his name

[@Oppongintegratedfarms]

❣️❣️❣️

[@niiokuley5466]

😍😍😍😍

[@elishabondziehanson6128]

The drummer plays saprewa. It’s unfortunate I cannot remember his name off the top of my head as I type.

[@lawencia6063]

Osie Kwame

[@patrickdonkor6903]

👌🏿✌🏿❤

[@niiokuley5466]

Nice song what do you learn from the song?

[@trippin7110]

anywhere I can find the lyrics for this beautiful song?

[@kwabenaobibini2648]

could not find the lyrics online so i listened and wrote it for you. Death is every body's buissness owuo te sɛ nnɔboa Ayie a yɛ kɔ yi, nnyɛ nsa nko na yɛ kɔ nom yen nnyinara nim sɛ, ɔbra twa owuo wɔ wiase yi mu na sɛ obi wu a, na awerɛhoɔ ne annibre aba y'ɛre kɔ ye adɔfo nom mmoa fri sɛ awerɛkyekye fri ɔnipa hɔ Yɛn kɔ gya nana ee... owuo te sɛ nnɔboa mo ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wɔn ma yɛn nkɔ gyam no aa... na owuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Yɛn kɔ gya nana ee... owuo te sɛ nnɔboa mo ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wɔn ma yɛn nkɔ gyam no aa... na owuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Hilife time Akwesi Gyamena ee, nipa nnkyɛre wiase ma yɛn nko gyam no aa na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Abranteɛ bi tuu bata kɔ nyaa ne ho ayie ba ne kuro mu a, na ɔde ne nsa amane ɔnkɔ ayie Hennaboa ɛgya rɛbɛ heni ato wo da bi ankyere biara na ne papa nso pɛtri wue ɔde nkrataa kɔ maa n'danfonom Yɛn kɔ gya nana ee... owuo te sɛ nnɔboa ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Ankyere biara, na ne papa nso pɛtri wue ɔde nkrataa kɔ maa n'danfonom ayie no durosoɔ no, obiara amma wɔn nso de yɛn nkra mannee Akwesi Gyamena ee, nipa nnkyɛre wiase ma yɛn nko gyam no aa na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa ma yɛn nko gyam no aa na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Akwesi Gyamena ee, nipa nnkyɛre wiase ma yɛn nko gyam no aa na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa ma yɛn nko gyam no aa na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Ayie no ɛduroso, obiara amma nsa na ɛsisi hɔ yi, y'ɛnnya nnipa na y'anom nananom ayie a yɛ kɔ yi sɛbe ɛnnyɛ nsa nko na yɛ kɔ nom yɛn nyinara nim sɛ ɔbra twa owuo wɔ wiase yi mu na sɛ obi wu a, na awerehoɔ ne anibere aba yɛ kɔ yɛ adɔfonom mmoa fri sɛ, awerekyekye fri nipa hɔ awesia dɔkyere durusoɔ no, obiara nni hɔ na w'apene adeɛ adekyedeɛ nso, nnipa nni hɔ Yɛn kaasɛ sɛbe o, yɛn seɛ yɛn bere nyinara wɔ ayie ho mmere re dane-dane no, na amanberɛ nso re sesa na nea w'awuo ne n'abusuafoɔ ne ne mma, wɔn hia mmoa baako nsie funu Kwabena Nkatia Simpremo ɔse, ɛbre wɔ n'ahyieɛ onipa ntumi nnɔ ntra nipa ne ɔdasani, ɔprepre ara ɔbɛ kɔ Kɔ gya nana ee... owuo te sɛ nnɔboa ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa ne na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya no na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Kɔ gya nana ee... yɛ re kɔ awie oo... ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa ma yɛn kɔ gyam no aa... na wuo te sɛ nnɔboa wo na ɛwu ma yɛn nkɔ gya wo na owuo te se nnɔboa wo di Thank you.

[@trippin7110]

@@kwabenaobibini2648 this was really kind of you, and i imagine it probably took you a long time to do because the song is 6 minutes lonh i have loved this song for a long time and now i finally get to learn it! thank you so much

[@HowTo-dk6uw]

Music

[@mosestettehnarh3726]

What's the meaning of ADAMPA?

[@kwadjoowusu356]

Moses Narh adampan in is the hole/space/grave dug for the casket to be put in

[@wisdomwizzy5248]

So they copied highlife to Affrobeats 😀😀 they are living in the past. Ghana 🇬🇭❤️