Daddy Lumba Was An Era That Won’t Come Again – Gideon Aryeequaye Mourns Death Of Highlife Icon

Executive Secretary of the Creative Arts Agency (CAA), Gideon Aryequaye has encourage Ghanaian artistes to emulate the consistency of late Highlife music icon, Daddy Lumba.

In a phone call interview on Top Radio’s Drive time show Top Pawa Drive, he mentioned that the legacy of Daddy Lumba is illustrious and should be preserved for future generations.

“When you are writing songs.. even when you are talking about love, you are talking about love responsibly and so on and so forth. And be consistent, if you know you come out with an album or a track and people love it don go sleeping”, Gideon Aryequaye told Londona on July 28, 2025.

Speaking about how younger Ghanaian artistes can sustain their music career for longer, he said:

“The young once must take a que from them, make sure you sustain yourself in the industry.. that will be a pacifier but the truth is that there is none like him, he is an era and that era is gone.

Daddy Lumba died in the early morning of 26 July 2025, at the age of 60 while under going treatment at the Bank Hospital, located in Cantonments.

2000 Ghana Music Awards – Artist of the Year, Best Album of the Year, Most Popular Song of the Year at the 2000 Ghana Music Awards.

In commemoration of the 2025 Commonwealth day, King Charles III listed Daddy Lumba’s ‘Mpempem Do Me’ song as one of his favorite tunes. The song ranked seventh out of 17 songs on King Charles’s “the kings music room” playlist on Apple.