Kwame Yeboah

Kwame Yeboah (born November 1977) is a Ghanaian musician, guitarist, keyboardist, producer and recording engineer based in London. He has been music director for Craig David and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, plays with Osibisa, and won Best Instrumentalist at the 2010 Ghana Music Awards.

Early life

He comes from a village in western Ghana and is the son of the veteran highlife musician A. K. Yeboah. He grew up among his father's musician friends, playing drums by five and guitar by seven before moving on to keyboards. At 18 he moved to Denmark to study arrangement and harmony, taking workshops with jazz musicians including Michel Camilo and Danilo Perez.

Career

He moved to the UK to work with Ms. Dynamite and went on to work with British artists including Daniel Bedingfield, Mis-Teeq and Craig David, whom he accompanied on David's 2013 world tour. He has toured or worked with Stevie Wonder, Shaggy, Tom Jones and Patrice, and plays in Yusuf/Cat Stevens's band, the Roadsters.

In Ghana he has been keyboardist and music director for Kojo Antwi, and until early 2017 he ran the Mixstation studio in Accra, producing artists such as Becca, Nana Yaa and Efya. His Ohia b3y3 ya Band released its first single, Only You, in 2013, and in 2014 he started the sega and reggae fusion band the sYnergee. He also brought the highlife singer Pat Thomas and his Kwashibu Area Band to stages across Europe.

Recognition

He won Best Instrumentalist at the 2010 Ghana Music Awards and Instrumentalist of the Year at the International Reggae and World Music Awards in 2021. In 2023 he became a member of the Recording Academy, which runs the Grammy Awards.