Rim Kwaku Obeng
Rim Kwaku Obeng was a Ghanaian disco composer, drummer, percussionist, and multi-instrumental musician.
He performed with the Uhuru Dance Band in the early 1970s and became a session musician in California, but his career growth as a musician was intercepted multiple times by fellow band member Duke Oketa. Following a series of hardships, he successfully recorded two afrobeat albums in America.
His two albums, Rim Arrives and Too Tough, were recorded in the late 1970s and had been previously considered lost. The albums gained renewed interest after BBE Records reissued them in 2015.
In 2015, Far Out described Rim Arrives and Too Tough as "two of the greatest records in Afro-disco history".
In 1979, the University of California, Los Angeles listed Obeng as a prominent influence alongside Stevie Wonder, Barry White, the Jacksons, Angela Bofill, and Earth, Wind & Fire, who popularized music that combined "traditional African musical forms with contemporary Afro-American" music.
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