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- Kiki_Gyan abstract "Kiki Gyan (7 June 1957 – 10 June 2004), also known as Kiki Djan, was a Ghanaian musician. He was the keyboardist of the band Osibisa, once popular in the 1970s. He also recorded and produced a series of disco records. He was a prodigy who could play keyboards exceptionally well.Born into a middle-class family in Takoradi, Ghana, Gyan started playing the piano when he was five years old and went professional at the age of 12. He dropped out of secondary school at 14 and after a tour of London with a local Ghanaian band called Pagadija, he joined the UK-based Afro-rock group Osibisa and travelled internationally with the band during the 1970s, playing to large audiences around the world. He was only 15 years old when he started playing with Osibisa in 1972, and immediately replaced the keyboardist who had just left.By the age of 18 Gyan had made more than a million dollars, \"had hung out with Elton John and Mick Jagger, played for Britain's queen and cruised on champagne-drenched luxury ocean-liners to island-hop in the Caribbean\". In 1977, he met Marvin Gaye, Peter Tosh, Stevie Wonder, and Third World during the FESTAC event in Nigeria. He left Osibisa to go solo in 1979 and recorded the single \"24 Hours in a Disco\", which hit the charts in the United States and the UK. He was briefly married to Fela Kuti's first daughter, before divorcing to marry a Ghanaian woman.Gyan started using and became addicted to hard drugs for some 21 years, to the detriment of his career. Kiki Gyan died alone and impoverished in a church bathroom in Ghana, a victim of AIDS and drugs-related complications.".
- Kiki_Gyan activeYearsEndYear "1985".
- Kiki_Gyan activeYearsStartYear "1970".
- Kiki_Gyan alias "Kiki Djan".
- Kiki_Gyan background "solo_singer".
- Kiki_Gyan birthDate "1957-06-07".
- Kiki_Gyan deathDate "2004-06-10".
- Kiki_Gyan genre Disco.
- Kiki_Gyan genre Funk.
- Kiki_Gyan instrument Keyboard_instrument.
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- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ghanaian_musicians.
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- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Keyboard_instrument.
- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Marvin_Gaye.
- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Mick_Jagger.
- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Osibisa.
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- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLink Stevie_Wonder.
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- Kiki_Gyan wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kiki Gyan".
- Kiki_Gyan alias "Kiki Djan".
- Kiki_Gyan background "solo_singer".
- Kiki_Gyan birthDate "1957-06-07".
- Kiki_Gyan birthName "Kofi Kwarko Gyan".
- Kiki_Gyan birthPlace "Ghana".
- Kiki_Gyan deathDate "2004-06-10".
- Kiki_Gyan genre Disco.
- Kiki_Gyan genre Funk.
- Kiki_Gyan instrument "keyboards, others".
- Kiki_Gyan label "P.V.P. Records, Boom Records, Top Records".
- Kiki_Gyan name "Kiki Gyan".
- Kiki_Gyan occupation "Musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, records producer".
- Kiki_Gyan origin "Ghana".
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- Kiki_Gyan yearsActive "1970".
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:1957_births.
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:2004_deaths.
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:AIDS-related_deaths_in_Ghana.
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:Drug-related_deaths_in_Ghana.
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:Ghanaian_musicians.
- Kiki_Gyan subject Category:Keyboardists.
- Kiki_Gyan hypernym Musician.
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- Kiki_Gyan comment "Kiki Gyan (7 June 1957 – 10 June 2004), also known as Kiki Djan, was a Ghanaian musician. He was the keyboardist of the band Osibisa, once popular in the 1970s. He also recorded and produced a series of disco records. He was a prodigy who could play keyboards exceptionally well.Born into a middle-class family in Takoradi, Ghana, Gyan started playing the piano when he was five years old and went professional at the age of 12.".
- Kiki_Gyan label "Kiki Gyan".
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- Kiki_Gyan sameAs Kiki_Djan.
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- Kiki_Gyan wasDerivedFrom Kiki_Gyan?oldid=703386776.
- Kiki_Gyan givenName "Kofi Kwarko Gyan".
- Kiki_Gyan isPrimaryTopicOf Kiki_Gyan.
- Kiki_Gyan name "Kiki Gyan".