Kwame Yeboah 'In His Own Time'

About this event

This August, experience an exclusive evening at PizzaExpress Live Chelsea with Kwame Yeboah, a pioneer of contemporary Ghanaian music. Joined by an elite band, Yeboah will present an intimate, high-energy performance featuring music from his highly anticipated debut project, In His Own Time. This event promises a masterful blend of modern Jazz improvisation and rich Highlife heritage, delivering a captivating symphony where rippling keyboards and dynamic grooves unite Highlife and Jazz in perfect harmony. Kwame Yeboah is a generation-defining multi-instrumentalist, super-producer, and musical architect whose work bridges Ghanaian tradition with contemporary global sound. Moving fluently between Highlife, Jazz, and Afrobeats; Yeboah is widely recognized as the visionary behind the modern evolution of Ghana’s iconic Highlife genre. Kwame began his journey at age five, the son of Highlife veteran A.K. Yeboah, mastering percussion before learning lead guitar and keyboards. His pursuit of technical mastery led him from Ghana to Denmark to study music harmony and arrangement, where he refined his craft under jazz luminaries such as Michel Camilo and Danilo Pérez. From Wassa in Ghana’s Western Region, Kwame Yeboah has become an internationally acclaimed composer, artist, musician, producer, musical director and multi-instrumentalist. Yeboah’s international career is marked by collaborations with the world’s most influential musicians.