User:Syncos Music

Syncos music is a music genre originating in Ghana by a record label known as Scratch Studios. Is the synchronization of the rhythm of the traditional Ghana Adowa dance with the rhythm of other music genre. It contains elements of Afro jazz, Afro rock and Afro beat. The usage of the "Atumpan" a traditional musical instrument part of the Fontomfrom drum orchestra and the Gankeke, a sort of cowbells, to vary and maintain the tempo is an integral part of the rhythm.

SYNCOS MUSIC is the synchronization of the "Soul" in African traditional rhythms with the 'soul' in other musical spectra into one beautiful world melody. SYNCOS MUSIC maintains its cultural authenticity whilst embracing and encompassing change and expansion into the contemporary mainstream musical expression.

In a cultural sense, SYNCOS MUSIC is more important than just music, in that it is an audible and living representation of African history, philosophies, ethics, spoken literature, moral values, and social code of conduct, religious beliefs, political thought and aesthetic principles coupled with the emergence of a global village

“SYNCOS... Ghana’s gift to the music world” -Ghanaian Times

"Syncos focuses on music with its cultural authenticity from Ghana, embracing change and bringing attention to a community grossly unrepresented and also offering something unique yet broad to the different media outlets into the mainstream contemporary music"Kofi Amoakohene Global Professional Achievers], Award Winner for Entertainment]

Teddy Osei of the world renowned Osibisa group and Hugh Masekela are known to be the pioneer and father of Syncos music genre respectively having had hits on Billboard magazine's world music charts.

SYNCOS Music in various musical spectra goes back to the late 1950s in the person of a Ghananian, the late Guy Warren ( later known in life as Kofi Ghanaba) who recorded the most celebrated hybrid of jazz played in America and that played in Africa, in his album “Africa speaks America answers”….through to the 1960s/70s with Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Osibisa, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Manu Dibango of “Soul makossa” fame,..used in Michael Jackson song ”Wanna be starting something” in his legendary album, “The thriller” in the 1980s, which also witnessed the success story of Paul Simon’s album “Graceland” featuring the Ghanaian Master Percussionist Okyerema Asante. The 1990s saw the emergence of Grammy award winning Angelique Kidjo and other Africans utilizing Syncos.ie intergrating and fusing African music with the world music.

The turn of the century saw Africa as the host of FIFA’s 2010 World Cup football competition and the song “ Waka Waka ( this time for Africa)” by Shakira, influenced by the 1986 Makossa hit by Cameroonian group, Golden Sounds, based on a traditional African soldiers song, Zamina mina ( Zangelewa) as the best selling world cup anthem in the digital age.In 2011 a Ghanaian Ebo Taylor,who had played high life music for half a century, was crowned the new King of Afro Beat. Syncos is an amazing mix of Ghanaian high life, traditional African music, American jazz and Western Music. DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC, DISCOVER SYNCOS MUSIC

Notable Syncos musicians
Paulette Broohm Steve Bedi Owura Paul Bilson Oswald Kouame Paul Madys Freeman Ame