How to Use highlife in a Sentence

highlife

noun

• Pat Thomas brought distinct approaches, having honed their craft in big dance highlife bands.
  — Christian Adofo, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• Afrobeats developed in the early 2000s, its sound the result of a fusion of elements taken from hip hop, R&B, highlife, dancehall, and more.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• The study discussed the protest contributions by reggae, highlife and other Afrobeat stars during the same period.
  — Garhe Osiebe, Quartz Africa, 21 Feb. 2021
• Nigerian highlife duo the Cavemen, also featured on V, tweeted that their union with Aṣa was a dream realized.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2022
• Afrobeat is a genre with the familiar universal appeal of jazz, soul and Ghanaian highlife, alongside the polyrhythmic drumming foundations of the Yoruba, Ewe, and Ga tribes.
  — Christian Adofo, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• Thirty years ago a frustrated drummer, burned out on playing Ghanaian highlife covers in a Toronto trio, decided to write and record his own music.
  — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• From there Bejuco construct a sound that draws significant inspiration from Fela Kuti and Afrobeat, while nodding to cumbia, dub, hip-hop, highlife, and more.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
• Now, Los Bitchos are interested in mixing some Seventies highlife rhythms into their music.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
• From early on, jazz was a chief influence on him, alongside highlife and Nigerian spiritual music.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 28 June 2017
• In the end, his experimentation with Afrobeat, highlife, and rock, coupled with his larger-than-life personality, attracted more attention than his rock peers.
  — Ama Udofa, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2022
• Hundreds of parishioners, overwhelmingly Nigerian, many in African ceremonial clothes, swayed to gospel songs made faster and funkier by Nigerian highlife beats.
  — Adam Shatz, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2016
• One common thread of my heritage was listening to my father's cassettes of highlife, a musical genre that combines ancient Ashanti rhythms with the rhythms of Ghana's other tribes, along with Western influences and instrumentation.
  — Nadia Owusu, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2021
• My latest collection explored postindependence Nigerian Afro-funk, disco, and highlife subcultures through the unique perspective of my late grandmother Florence.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024