OSIBISA

Osibisa are a Ghanaian Afro Rock band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and
three Caribbean musicians.
Their music is a fusion of African, Caribbean, jazz, funk, rock, Latin, and R&B and highlife. They were originally
signed to MCA Records.
Osibisa were the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in London, alongside such
contemporaries as  Assagai , Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, and Noir, and were largely
responsible for the establishment of world music as a marketable genre.
**Sunshine Day was a track originally released on the 1976 Welcome Home album on Bronze Records. It
reached No17 in the UK charts in January of the same year.

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“45 years since our first UK chart hit with ’Sunshine Day', and it’s a privilege to see the Osibisa vibe still
going strong today.  The band has always been a fluid collective of passionate musicians, which injects an
ever-evolving freshness to our sound.  But for this new album, original member Robert Bailey, and Osibisa
Veteran, Gregg Kofi Brown, are back on board; along with some dynamic new faces and our first ever
female members.  ’New Dawn’ is a diverse, dynamic collection of tracks, all underpinned by the original
Osibisa afrobeat vibe that I brought to the UK over half a century ago.  I couldn’t be prouder to present this
latest evolution of Osibisa,” comments Teddy Osei.