{"id":217412,"date":"2026-04-04T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217412"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:49:12","slug":"the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guitarist-and-highlife-music-pioneer-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217412","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music\u201d: Ebo Taylor, celebrated Ghanaian guitarist and highlife music pioneer, dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across numerous albums and collaborations, Taylor cemented his position as one of the foremost proponents of highlife, afrobeat and West African music&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/guitarists\/ebo-taylor-dies-at-90\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across numerous albums and collaborations, Taylor cemented his position as one of the foremost proponents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217412-the-world-has-lost-a-giant-a-colossus-of-african-music-ebo-taylor-celebrated-ghanaian-guit69d16b4a38c13-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}