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Popular music greats who once graced our music scene came out in their numbers Saturday night to help one of their own, Akosua Agyepong celebrate her 20th birthday in music at the Accra International Conference Centre.
Akosua Agyepong was celebrating a music career that started in 1990 attaining 20 years in the industry this year. To commemorate her second decade of doing music commercially, ‘Akosua @ 20 Musical Concert’ was put together by Media Excel Production as a celebration of Akosua Agyepong and also to enable her fans re-live the good old days of her music.
Akosua Agyepong, who became a house hold in the 90s was discovered by another music legend Nana Kwame Ampadu and she quickly became synonymous with a very sweet voice and well-crafted dance moves.
Akosua’s profile
Akosua Agyepong was born in Accra in 1964 and she is a half Ashanti, half Akyem. She started her education at Harrow International School and later attended Holy Child Secondary in Cape Coast after which she had a one year computer course at NCR. She entered music afterwards.
Akosua started composing songs as a child indicating that, music was an inborn passion for her. She was subsequently discovered by legendary Nana Kwame Ampadu and subsequently came out with her first album ‘Frema’ which was released on January 1, 1990. The ‘Frema’ album had songs like 'Me ye Obaa', 'Born again', 'Anan tuo', 'San be hwe wo mba’ among others.
Her second album was entitled 'Esiwa' had the hit song like 'Kokokoo'. Her third was with music group NAKOREX which was made up of herself, Nat Brew and Rex Omar. Akosua has five albums to her credit, one in collaboration with NAKOREX and another as a member of NAKOREX. The group released two albums which included the popular hit song ‘Kpanlogo’. She later turned into doing gospel music.
Akosua Agyepong is married to Rev Daniel Asamoah-Larbi and she is a mother of six, Ewurama, Ebo, Nana Akua and Maame Kwakywaa, Kweku and Efua Amoabea. She also owns a restaurant, 'Ye Kum Kom' at Rawlings Park in Accra Central.
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