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Jeida Rich to release single produced by Germany’s Bodo Staiger

Jeida Rich in a selfie with legendary sound engineer, Bodo Staiger.

Ghanaian Highlife sensation, Jeida Rich, formerly known as Richie Rich, after making a major comeback with his ‘Akokome’ single release, has been spotted in a viral picture with legendary German record producer, Bodo Staiger.

The two music icons are believed to be working on a new single release to be hopefully launched this year for all Highlife music lovers. Based on the track record of Staiger, this new tune is expected to be nothing less of the timeless pieces by various Ghanaian Highlife pioneers.

In 1988, Bodo Staiger founded Rheinklang Studios in Düsseldorf, where he recorded and mastered most Highlife songs composed by Ghanaian highlife musicians. He has been to Ghana on short visits a couple of times for important assignments.

Bodo Staiger recorded hit songs for Ghanaian highlife musicians such as ; Daddy Lumba, Nana Acheampong, Tagoe Sisters, Daughters of Glorious Jesus, Ofori Amponsah, Oheneba Kissi, and others in the 80s and 90s.

Staiger played as an 18 -year-old together with Marius Müller Westernhagen in the rock ‘n’ roll band Harakiri Whoom . He then founded the jazz-rock formation Sinus together with Karl Bartos.

From the mid-1970s, he played with the rock band Lilac Angels an album. But he became known as a singer of the NDW band Rheingold , which he founded in 1980 influenced by bands such as Kraftwerk and La Dusseldorf .

Between 1980 and 1984 he released three albums and several commercially successful singles with the band.

Today Staiger works as a producer and sound engineer in Düsseldorf . In 1997 he participated in the production of a solo album of the former power station musician Wolfgang Flür , which was released under the project name Yamo.

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Emmanuel Ghansah, Ghana Music

Singer, Songwriter, scriptwriter, blogger, lover of the creative arts, brands and communications expert.

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