{"id":1148065,"date":"2022-07-13T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/highlife-musician-a-b-crentsil-dies-at-age-79\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:26:03","slug":"highlife-musician-a-b-crentsil-dies-at-age-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/highlife-musician-a-b-crentsil-dies-at-age-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlife musician A.B. Crentsil dies at age 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Highlife legend Alfred Benjamin Crentsil has passed away at age 79.<\/p>\n<p>The sad news was announced by ace recording engineer, Fred Kyei Mensah (Fredyma) on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/q8AiW739I-Q\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/q8AiW739I-Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFAREWELL AB CRENSTIL. The original composer and singer of the famous and controversial songs, \u2018Moses and Aba\u2019 AB Crenstil, has died! He had a stint with a lot of bands before joining the Sweet Talks Band with Smart Nkansah and then his own band, Ahenfo. His hit songs, \u2018Juliana and Obi ba wiase cannot be forgotten\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tributes have started pouring in for the man regarded as one of the greatest Ghanaian musicians.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fciti973%2Fvideos%2F10154712943211107%2F&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>A.B. Crentsil was born in Tarkwa in 1943. He played in the El Dorados Band, Sweet Talks, Talk Of The Town and later his own Ahenfo Band.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlife legend Alfred Benjamin Crentsil has passed away at age 79. The sad news was announced by ace recording engineer, Fred Kyei Mensah (Fredyma) on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in a Facebook post. \u00a0 \u201cFAREWELL AB CRENSTIL. The original composer and singer of the famous and controversial songs, \u2018Moses and Aba\u2019 AB Crenstil, has died! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20336,2568,20337,862,14553,1045],"class_list":["post-1148065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-b","tag-age","tag-crentsil","tag-dies","tag-highlife","tag-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}