King Ayisoba, often called “King of Kologo” and “A living legend”, has an unique sound and significant range of voices, which makes him sound like no other.

Coming from a rural area in the far north of Ghana, descending from a Frafra hunting tribe, his performances are full of tribal power, his grandfather’s voices which materializes through his incredible range of deep and loud nasal cries as well as soft high singing accompanied by his kologo. Supported by his band of Frafra musicians, with their mesmerizing infectious beats, high energy dances and singing, King Ayisoba provides captivating stage performances with rhythms going straight to the heart and inner pulse with a touch of repetitive trance. He has a great ability to interact with his audience, reaching the young and old with his straight forward lines, making them respond to his cries and dance along.

Already as a very small child King Ayisoba started to play the kologo, since then it’s been like an extended part of his body, not a single day goes by where he is not playing. King Ayisoba is pure music, his main communication tool, singing in the local languages Frafra, Twi and Pigeon English, he brings the traditional and modern together while addressing personal, social and political issues that he thinks needs attention and change. He wishes to inspire people to be more conscious and to act upon injustice, corruption, greed or how a father treats his family. .

Panji Anoff discovered King Ayisoba and produced his first album “Modern Ghanians” in 2006, the album took everyone by surprise and the hit “I want to see you my father” spread like a bushfire through Ghana and honored King Ayisoba with 3 awards, “Discovery of the year”, “Traditional song of the Year” and “Most popular song of the year” at The Ghana Music Award in 2007. .

Since his breakthrough King Ayisoba has won more awards, released 7 albums, featured on countless releases and toured around the Globe from US, Canada and Europe to Asia, Australia and Africa. Some highlights have been Roskilde Festival (DK), Fusion Festival (DE), Womex (PL), Respect Festival (CZ), Yeowoorak Festival (KR), WOMAD (AU/NZ) amongst many more..

King Ayisobas main focus will always be his own composed songs played with his traditional band ranging from 2 - 10 band members, depending on the setup, all traditional Frafra musicians, vocalists and dancers. .

Continuously talented musicians keep discovering King Ayisoba and invites him to team up to do new releases, be it dub mix, dj’s or instrumentalists from a wide range of music genres, in the crossover collaborations King Ayisoba’s music keeps evolving into new areas of hiplife, punk rock, dancehall, reggae, folkmusic and even techno. He has worked for more than a decade with Zea, front figure Arnold de Boer from the Ex (NL) and has additionally made collaborations with international artists like Lee “Scratch” Perry (JM), Orlando Julius (NG), African Head Charge (UK), Adrian Sherwood (UK) , Djuma Soundsystem (NO), MoBlack (IT), Pharfar (DK), New Age Doom (CA), and many others.

LINEUP:

Group Size: 4 Artists + 1 manager (at times 1 tour manager)
• King Ayisoba: leadsinger, lead kologo, composer
• Ayuune Sulley: Sinyaaka and Kologo player, backing singer
• Francis Ayamga - Bemne and djembe drummer, dancer, backing singer
• Bonaface Akakuli: Calabash, dancer, backing singer