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Early life
“Francis Goldman Aporiegah” born on 9 July 1964 in Zaare Nyarega,  Bolgatanga uppereast Ghana to Mr. and Mrs. George Aporiegah. He attended Bolgatanga senior secondary school in Bolgatanga, where he obtained the West African Senior School Certificate. .

Music Career
In 1983, he came to Nigeria and by 1985, he formed the Sweat Band at Bobby Benson Hotel with Yemi Benson, Daddy BJ, Gesso Dread and I. They recorded an album “Taxi Driver” and the group was managed by Maxwell Benson son of the great Bobby Benson. In 1989, Francis Goldman went solo and recorded two albums with Tabansi Music (1990-1995). He worked briefly with Femi Lasode of Africa N’vogue and recorded an album at the Even Ezra Studios. . In 1999, he was signed on by Emma Ideal Music and by 2001 he recorded an album “Humpty-Dumpty”. By 2005, the music industry was hijacked by pirates and artists found it quite difficult to reckon with.

By 2014, he has recorded a seventeen tracks album “So Much More”: eight reggae songs and nine from other genres.

Francis Goldman as fondly called by many follows the Rastafarian faith and his easily noticeable with his long natty dreadlock hairstyle. Francis has performed with Obafemi Lasode, Majek Fashek, Baba Fryo and other prominent reggea artist in many notable Local and International reggae concerts in Nigeria and Ghana .

Discography

 * 'Taxi Driver', 1993
 * Determined Soul, 1990
 * ''So much more', 2014