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A Ghanaian musician living in the UK under the stage name Gifty Naa DK, famed for songs like Now Come Another Day, Wo Baaya, and Beiko Ne Eho, among others, has reportedly passed away.
According to what we gathered from Tru News Report, Henry Obodai Squire-Tetteh, the boss of Flyboy Worldwide Record Label CEO broke the sad news on social media.
The musician, according to Henry Obodai, died on February 23, 2023, at the age of 72, after a brief illness, however, he did not say why she died.
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Even though it was so hard to imagine, Henry Obodai said that death had claimed the musician he had collaborated with for years.
Henry Obodai continued, saying he found it hard to accept the loss of a “sister.” Gifty Collins had more than seven CDs to her credit and had been in the music industry for more than fifty years.
In addition, Henry Obodai expressed his shock at losing a “sister.” Gifty Collins had been active in the music industry for more than 50 years and had put out more than seven CDs.
Gifty arrived in Britain in 1979 as a member of the Bokoor (Cool) band, touring and giving drum lessons all over the UK.
She made the decision to go it alone in the early 1990s, putting out two albums, including the highly soulful and enjoyable “Etome” in 1998.
Gifty until her death was a woman of many abilities, started her career as a hairstylist in the early 2000s and opened her first salon, “It Will Grow Back,” in East London.
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She was a hair design pioneer, with “the tree hairstyle”, which owed her commissions from the Hackney Museum and the organisers of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.
She specialised in braiding, from cornrows to corkscrews to twists, and although Gifty had relocated the business to North London, she operated and ran all her activities from her home in Old Street.