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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	Amakye Dede is a Ghanaian singer and bandleader associated with [[Highlife\|highlife]]. Also known as Abrantee and Iron Boy, he developed a career with the Apollo High Kings that reached audiences in Ghana, Nigeria and overseas.<ref name="amakye-profile">[https://www.modernghana.com/music/627/meet-abrantee-amakye-dede-the-highlife-king.html Modern Ghana: Meet Abrantee Amakye Dede, 12 April 2004]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Amakye Dede is a Ghanaian singer and bandleader associated with [[Highlife\|highlife]]. Also known as Abrantee and Iron Boy, he developed a career with the Apollo High Kings that reached audiences in Ghana, Nigeria and overseas.<ref name="amakye-profile">[https://www.modernghana.com/music/627/meet-abrantee-amakye-dede-the-highlife-king.html Modern Ghana: Meet Abrantee Amakye Dede, 12 April 2004]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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	== Works and performances ==		== Works and performances ==
	''Kose Kose'', ''Odo Nfoni'', ''Dabi Dabi'', ''Bebrebe Yi'' and ''Iron Boy'' mark successive points in the catalogue. Live releases from Düsseldorf document the overseas performance circuit.<ref name="amakye-profile" /> He also performed at the 2025 public memorial for [[Daddy Lumba]], a later example of his place within Ghana's highlife community.<ref name="amakye-2025">[https://gna.org.gh/2025/08/one-week-memorial-held-for-legendary-highlife-musician-daddy-lumba-2/ Ghana News Agency: Daddy Lumba memorial performances, 31 August 2025]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		''Kose Kose'', ''Odo Nfoni'', ''Dabi Dabi'', ''Bebrebe Yi'' and ''Iron Boy'' mark successive points in the catalogue. Live releases from Düsseldorf document the overseas performance circuit.<ref name="amakye-profile" /> He also performed at the 2025 public memorial for [[Daddy Lumba]], a later example of his place within Ghana's highlife community.<ref name="amakye-2025">[https://gna.org.gh/2025/08/one-week-memorial-held-for-legendary-highlife-musician-daddy-lumba-2/ Ghana News Agency:] [[Daddy Lumba]] memorial performances, 31 August 2025. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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== Summary ==
Amakye Dede is a Ghanaian singer and bandleader associated with [[Highlife|highlife]]. Also known as Abrantee and Iron Boy, he developed a career with the Apollo High Kings that reached audiences in Ghana, Nigeria and overseas.<ref name="amakye-profile">[https://www.modernghana.com/music/627/meet-abrantee-amakye-dede-the-highlife-king.html Modern Ghana: Meet Abrantee Amakye Dede, 12 April 2004]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Life and career ==
From Agogo, he joined Akwasi Ampofo Agyei's Kumapem Royals as a vocalist in 1973 and began composing within that guitar-band setting. Work in Nigeria preceded a renewed Ghanaian profile through 'Kose Kose' in 1987. The Apollo High Kings provided the ensemble behind much of his subsequent recording and touring.<ref name="amakye-profile" />

== Music and style ==
His music combines highlife with [[Reggae|reggae]] influences and dance-band arrangements. Songs often turn toward reassurance, reflection and the value of relationships. The resulting sound links the guitar-band apprenticeship to a broader Afro-Caribbean popular vocabulary. The 2004 profile identifies ''Bebrebe Yi'' as a particularly explicit example of that exchange.<ref name="amakye-profile" />

== Works and performances ==
''Kose Kose'', ''Odo Nfoni'', ''Dabi Dabi'', ''Bebrebe Yi'' and ''Iron Boy'' mark successive points in the catalogue. Live releases from Düsseldorf document the overseas performance circuit.<ref name="amakye-profile" /> He also performed at the 2025 public memorial for [[Daddy Lumba]], a later example of his place within Ghana's highlife community.<ref name="amakye-2025">[https://gna.org.gh/2025/08/one-week-memorial-held-for-legendary-highlife-musician-daddy-lumba-2/ Ghana News Agency: Daddy Lumba memorial performances, 31 August 2025]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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