Eddie Quansah
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Eddie Quansah | |
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| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Trumpet |
| Labels | Island Records, Essiebons, Polydor |
| Formerly of | Afrodisiac, King Cobra, Stargazers Dance Band, The Black Star Band, The Black Star Sound, The Sons of the Jungle, Osibisa |
Eddie Quansah is a prominent musician from Ghana. In addition to fronting and being a member of various musician ensembles, he has also worked as a session musician.
Eddie Quansah grew up in Kumasi, Ghana, the same town where Teddy Osei of Osibisa hailed from. When he was a toddler he expressed his early musician ability by playing on pots and pans. He later learnt how to play the bugle, then graduated to trumpet. As a teenager, he joined the Topspotters, who were one of the most popular highlife bands in town.
When he was 21, he relocated to London and found his townmate Teddy Osei who was forming Osibisa. He played with the group for a while before leaving to study at Eric Gilders Music School for the next three years.
He would join the ranks of Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon. Later he heard that Johnny Nash was forming a band, and he did an audition for a role in the group. He got the job, and they recorded the hit "I Can See Clearly Now". He would also play on hit records by The Stargazers, Cat Stevens, Suzie Quatro, Toots and the Maytals, Bryan Ferry, The Reels and Bob Marley. He moved to Australia in the 1980s.[1]