Disco Dance Hit Maker Ebo Taylor Dances Into Eternity
By Shine Esi Kwawukumey Ebo Taylor is dead. The legendary highlife and Afrobeat musician whose career spanned more than six decades, blending traditional Ghanaian rhythms with jazz, funk and global influences, bid his fans farewell in a rather unusual way. Mr Taylor died on 7 February 2026 at 90 years old, just one day after the soft launch of EboFest, a festival created in his honour and held at Alliance Française in Accra on Friday, 6 February. Born Deroy “Ebo” Taylor on 6 January 1936 in Cape Coast, Taylor rose to prominence in the late 1950s as a guitarist and bandleader with influential ensembles such as the Stargazers and the Broadway Dance Band. He later took his Black Star Highlife Band to London, where he worked with pioneering Nigerian Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti, before returning to Ghana to produce recordings for major artists and refine his signature fusion sound. Over his long and distinguished career, Taylor became known as a central figu...