Nana Osibio´s remarkable music career started in early1970s when a good (late) friend of his taught him how to play keyboards. Within 3 months Nana Osibio started playing in a group.

Then, he picked the bass - or, better say - the bass picked him! Because nobody taught him how to play the bass. He just found himself picking up tunes on his own.

As time went by, he grew more and more involved with the bass. "My love for the bass was more like a spiritual relation," Nana Osibio recalls. "I had even built my own bass! You better ask, how did it look and sound! Yeah!"

However, in 1974, soon after he finished from high school, he joined a group called Capricon, as a keyboard player. This band was managed by Caprice. The salary he got was pretty good, but - he was still more interested in BASS. For that was his beloved instrument. Well! One day, a friend of his who used to play drums, in one of the big bands in Ghana, The Barbecues invited him to their concert. Nana Osibio went and jammed on the bass - just to advertise himself. And that jam-session was the main-key to his music life as the Bassist. Nana Osibio stopped playing with the Capricon and joined another band, Alpha & Omega, as the bass player. Six months later, they left the management and started traveling around Burkinafaso, Mali, Senegal, Gambia. Opening his eyes to the beauty of African landscapes and different ways of life enriched his music development.

Returning to Ghana, his blood was boiling with fresh inspiration. Alpha & Omega dissolved. One year later, 1977, he and his friends formed the Classique Handels. The band which soon became the top in the country. But due to some financial problems with the management, they had to break off. And they formed their own band, Classique Vibes. (Awarded the "Best Band in Ghana", 1978) In 1980, Classique Vibes was invited, through the connections of Sam Adou, to travel to Europe. That was another new chapter of Nana Osibio´s music life - a kind of an adventure, knowing what he was leaving behind, but not what was waiting ahead. Classic Vibes performed on the Afro-Festival in Copenhagen, and, never found their way back to Africa.

Europe! 25 years, went by just like that! Each and everyday seeing himself getting more and more involved on this path of music. Nana Osibio´s experience in Demark became one of getting to know and playing with different kinds of interesting musicians and bands, such as: Kwadjo Antwi band, Womack & Womack, Ahmadu Jarr & Highlife orchestra, Tchando´s band, Mutabaruka, Funky Fever, Emergency, Rikkie band, Wakilo, Roy Richards reggae band, Zebra band, Frafra band, Albert campos band, Afro Moses band, Ministry of Harmony, Continental Heat, Aida Naden´s band, and so on and so forth.

"Looking back now, I see it has all been an experience of learning and learning ... that´s what my music is all about," Nana Osibio concludes. "All these fellow musicians deserve my hearty love, appreciation and respect!" Yet, the origins and background to where he came from remains to be the roots of the tree of his music; the songs and stories told to him by his mother as a kid; the songs and ecstacy from his local church in Ghana - the African spirit. That´s what gave blood and pulse to the sound of his "African- funky-bass" and vision to his present style of music, which he is proud to call AWOYO MUSIC.

Currently, Nana Osibio has formed his own band, ASAFO BAND, getting ready to promote his first CD release, TimiTimi.

By Musa Ajmi