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E.T. Mensah

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Emmanuel Tettah Mensah, born in 1919 in Accra, Ghana, died July 19, 1996, was a singer, composer, trumpeter and bandleader known as 'the King of Highlife', leader of the Tempos, the first fully professional highlife dance band (per Donald Clarke's Encyclopedia of Popular Music).

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Emmanuel Tettah Mensah, born in 1919 in Accra, Ghana, died July 19, 1996, was a singer, composer, trumpeter and bandleader known as 'the King of Highlife', leader of the Tempos, the first fully professional highlife dance band (per Donald Clarke's Encyclopedia of Popular Music).

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Emmanuel Tettah Mensah, born in 1919 in Accra, Ghana, died July 19, 1996, was a singer, composer, trumpeter and bandleader known as 'the King of Highlife', leader of the Tempos, the first fully professional highlife dance band (per Donald Clarke's Encyclopedia of Popular Music).

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