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During this time, Osei formed a band called Cat's Paw, which blended the vibrant rhythms of highlife - a popular West African genre - with the energetic styles of rock and soul.

She features in his recently released remix of Joromi, a classic tune by the late Nigerian highlife artist Sir Victor Uwaifo.

In the earlier hours, when people bring babies or stop in after work, it’s Ghanaian highlife — “oldies … like from my childhood,” Fahnbulleh said — and as the night goes on, the music segues into Afrobeats.

My mum's from Ghana and I grew up on highlife music and Afrobeats.

Her songs are mostly in Bambara, which she sings over tightly riveted rhythms drawn from the Wassoulou region of Mali or the highlife tradition of Ghana.