Osibisa

Osibisa
Osibisa
Background information
Also known as	O-S-I-B-I-S-A, Osi Bisa, Osibisi, Osibissa, オシビサ
Origin	London, England, and Accra, Ghana
Genres	Afro rock progressive rock highlife Afrobeat
Years active	1969–present
Labels	MCA Records, Bronze, Island, Decca (US), Warner Bros., Red Steel, Flying Elephant, BGO
Website	Official website

Osibisa is a British-Ghanaian-Caribbean Afro-rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based Caribbean musicians.^[1]

Osibisa was the most successful and longest lived of the African-heritage bands in London, alongside such contemporaries as Assagai, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Demon Fuzz, Black Velvet and Noir, and was largely responsible for the establishment of world music and Afro-Rock as a marketable genre.

The original band that featured on the first three studio albums was universally known as the Beautiful Seven.