Alfred Ladzekpo

Alfred Ladzekpo is a Ghanaian percussionist .

Ladzepko was introduced to the art of drumming the Ewe by his father Kofi Ladzepko and his older brother Husunu Ladzepko . At the age of thirteen, he was one of the founders of the music and dance group Lashibi Agahu . In 1957 he founded a music group at the Anlo Awoame Fia School , later he was the drummer of the Gbeho Research Group , the Uhuru Dance Band and the National Dance Company in Accra .

In 1969 Ladzepko recorded African music in New York . He studied journalism at California State University, Northridge , until 1974 . He later gave performances, music lessons and dance workshops in Israel. Since 1994 he has taught in the Faculty of Music at Pomona College . He studied for three years at Columbia University , where he gave seminars in African music and African dance, and is co-director of the African Music and Dance Program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He wrote three African musicals, including most recently FeFe , a music, dance and theater piece.

Web links

• Short biography and video on artistshouse.org