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How to pronounce highlife in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms extravagance, high life, lavishness, prodigality
Type of dissipation, waste, wastefulness

Examples of highlife

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The Ghanaian-German community created a form of highlife called Burger-highlife.
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Olaiya's music bridges between Ghanaian highlife and what would become Afrobeat.
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Highlife is characterized by jazzyhorns and multiple guitars which lead the band.
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The epicurean guitar style of that track carried highlife music to another level.
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Makossa developed in Douala and mixes folk music, highlife, soul, and Congo music.
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Palm-wine music left an influence on many styles, especially soukous and highlife.
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His music is infectious, typifying highlife music, played with great energy.
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Highlife was the most popular genre in Ghana and Nigeria during the 1960s.
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While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife.
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  • Extravagance: excessive spending
  • HighLife is a cellular automaton similar to Conway's Game of Life. It was devised in 1994 by Nathan Thompson. ...
  • Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana in the 1900s and spread to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other West African countries by 1920. ...
  • Highlife is the Ghanaian and Nigeria ball room music from West Africa. It is indeed this style of African dance music that first introduced African popular music to Europe and America. Among the early pioneers are King Bruce and his Black beat, E.T. ...
  • Ghanaian pop style, vaguely big-bandish in its mature phase, that dominated Afropop before Zaire took over
  • A music style based on the kpanlogo rhythm, that originated in Ghana in the 1920s and became popular in neighboring Nigeria, a combination of tribal rhythms with various European, American-style big band sounds, and even Caribbean influences. ...
  • Ghanian and Eastern Nigerian dance music , originating from the popular kpanlogo rhythm which developed in Ghana during the 60's.