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Paapa Yankson
12+ albums
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Paapa Yankson (Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson, Winneba, Ghana 22 June 1944 - 21 July 2017) was a Ghanaian highlife musician and producer. He won multiple awards for his songs including best composition at the Konkomba Awards. He was a recipient of The Grand Medal of Ghana for his music. Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson was born in 1944, in Winneba, in the Central Region of Ghana. He was born into a musical family with his father, Benjamin Akono Yankson being a trumpeter with the Apam Brass Band and his trading mother Akua Doma, a member of the Christ Little Band of the Methodist Church. He attended Takoradi Methodist School for his primary education and proceeded to Ahantaman Secondary Commercial School. He graduated from the commercial school with a certificate in stenography. Through out his early life, he had the desire to be a musician and would regularly sing-along with his mother whenever she sung. His parents wanted him to have a white collar job, however. After graduating from commercial school, he was employed at Kingsway Chemist and worked as a stenographer. After working for five years he resigned and took up an appointment at African Timber and Plywood Company, a subsidiary of the United African Company (UAC), at Samreboi. The company had a workers' band — the Big Sound Band — which performed regularly after work. Yankson became the lead singer of the band and polished his talent during the four years he worked at Samreboi. In the 1970s, C. K. Mann, the leader of the
