highlife
Americannoun
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an expensive, glamorous, or elegant style of living.
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a genre of dance music originating in Ghana that fuses traditional West African rhythms with elements of jazz and other Western popular music.
noun
Etymology
Origin of highlife
Example Sentences
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Tributes have been pouring in from across Ghana and the world since the death of Ghanaian highlife legend Ebo Taylor.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
Born Deroy Taylor in Cape Coast in 1936, he began performing in the 1950s, as highlife was establishing itself as the dominant sound in Ghana in the years following independence.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
The band's name, Osibisa, comes from a word in the Fante language, meaning "highlife".
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
She features in his recently released remix of Joromi, a classic tune by the late Nigerian highlife artist Sir Victor Uwaifo.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
Once he’d committed himself to music in his late teens, he threw himself into Idonije’s five-digit record collection, flipping highlife, afrobeat and jazz vinyls on the turntable for hours in his garage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
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