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= DELLA HAYES = Biography of Della Hayes and her Women of Colour Band

Della Hayes’ singing career started in a church choir when she was 6 and in 2009 she launched the first ever private female contemporary music band in Africa, comprising a bass, a keyboard, drums, percussions, a guitar, a trumpet and of course Della herself as lead vocalist with 3 full octaves. In 2019 Della celebrated “Della @ 10”, with the Della for Womanity Concert at the Alliance Francaise Auditorium, Accra, with 2 trumpets, and now also a trombone and a gome, and with Naa Amanua, Asabea Cropper and Bessa Simons as guest artists.

Music Genre

Their music is highlife pop, high life beat and world music, interspersed with hippidippip, which is using meaningless word-like and common sounds to make music.

They perform a repertoire of more than 4 hours including 18 own songs, 2 in French.

Publicity and performances

Because of its uniqueness, hippidippip, colours, perseverance, non sex (exposure), non-drugs and humble backgrounds, the Band received lots of publicity and featured on BBC and RFI and all the major radio and TV stations in Ghana, and the group rapidly gained popularity, performing at the Mc Tontoh (Osibisa founder) tribute concert, at the National Theatre and at the Conference Centre in Accra, at the Citi FM MOGO concert and with Icons such as Kojo Antwi, Becca, Sherifa Gunu, Freddie Meiway and many others.

Aside with her band Della Hayes also regularly performs as a guest singer with other bands such as Osibisa, Dela Botri & the Hewale Band, the Bessa Band and many others. She also performed in Havana Cuba at La Zorra y el Cuervo and at the Café Concert Gato Tuerto with Juano la Cubano

Awards

In 2011 Della and her band received a MUSIGA (Musicians Union of Ghana) award for their enormous contribution to the music industry in Ghana and in 2017 Della received a recognition for her female band formation initiative from “Values for Life Ghana”