Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 7849 4291
https://isni.org/isni/0000000078494291
Name: 
E. T. Mensah (Ghanaian musicians)
Mensah, E. T.
Mensah, Emmanuel Tetteh
Mensah, Emmanuel Tettey
Dates: 
1919-1996
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
Related names: 
Bembeya jazz national
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (isAffiliatedWith)
Musicians Union of Ghana (Organization) (isAffiliatedWith)
Pino, Geraldo
Super eagles
Tempos (groupe musical)
Titles: 
Africa 50 years of music 1960-2010
King of highlife anthology
Mensah, king of highlife
rough guide to West African gold
Notes: 
Associated Group: Korle Bu Teaching Hospital Tempos (Musical group) naf
Associated Group: Musicians Union of Ghana (Organization) Leopard and His Black and White Spots (Musical group)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Mensah, E. T.; Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah; King of Highlife; singer, pharmacist; born 31 May 1919 in Accra, Ghana; attended School of Pharmacy at Korle Bu Hospital, Accra; joined Leopard and His Black and White Spots group (1940-1943); became a bandleader and arranger for Tempos, the Gold Coast's first professional band in Accra, Ghana (1950s); was an executive member of the Musicians Union of Ghana; Ghanaian government formally bestowed him with the title Okunini (very famous person) for enduring contribution to the country's artistic and cultural development (1989); died in 1996 in Accra, Ghana)
E. T. Mensah, king of highlife, c1996 t.p. (E.T. Mensah) p. 1, etc. (Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah, b. 31st May, 1919; d. July 1996)
Giants of Ghanaian danceband highlife, 1950-1970s [SR] p1990 container (E.T. Mensah) insert (highlife musician; b. 1919)
Singers Pharmacists
Sources: 
VIAF DNB RERO WKD