“It is in the western part of Accra, in a house with no address, next to a dirt road, that we meet ‘Ghana’s First Rock Star’, the highlife legend Pat Thomas. We cross a smoky room and a home studio and find ourselves in the middle of a hot rehearsal. Sitting on a sofa opposite his newly reunited Kwashibu Area Band, Pat Thomas is listening, attentive and focused. Suddenly, he gets up and, dancing with eyes closed, lets forth his perfectly recognizable voice, the famous ‘Golden Voice of Africa’. The years have passed but Pat Thomas is undoubtedly still a star. Let us look back on more than 50 years of a musical career and a life of opportunity and improvisation, guided by music and by the destiny of Ghana....”
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