Editing Obo Addy (section)

{{Short description|Ghanaian musician (1936–2012)}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name                = Obo Addy
| image               = Obo Addy.jpg
| caption             = Addy in 2009
| image_size          = 250px
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| alias               = 
| birth_date          = January 15, 1936
| birth_place         = [[Accra]], Ghana
| death_date          = {{death date and age|2012|9|13|1936|1|15}}
| death_place         = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
| origin              = 
| instrument          = Drum
| genre               = [[Worldbeat]]
| occupation          = Musician, dancer, professor
| years_active        = 1969&ndash;2012
| label               = 
| associated_acts     = 
| website             = 
}}
'''Obo Addy''' (January 15, 1936 &ndash; September 13, 2012) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native [[African music|African musicians]] to bring the fusion of traditional [[folk music]] and [[Western culture|Western]] [[pop music]] known as ''[[worldbeat]]'' to Europe and then to the [[Pacific Northwest]] of the United States in the late 1970s.  He taught music at [[Lewis & Clark College]] in [[Portland, Oregon]].<ref name="nhf">{{cite web|url=https://arts.gov/honors/heritage/obo-addy |title=Obo Addy: Ghanaian-American Drummer |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=February 25, 2024}}</ref>