Sidiku buari biography

If you’d achieved just a tenth of what Ghana’s Alhaji Sidiku Buari has in his lifetime, you’d consider yourself supremely accomplished.

Originally a national athlete, winning silver and gold medals in the Senegal All Africa Games and West African Games in 1963 and a bronze in the All African in Congo Brazzaville in 1965, Buari then moved to America on a music scholarship at The York Institute, obtained as a result of his athletic achievements.

As a keen all-round sportsman, he soon became enthused by baseball, training with the York team and occasionally playing in matches.

When one of York’s music teachers, Irvin Mechanic, heard him singing inspirational team-builder songs and chants for his side – in the Ga language- he suggested putting a rhythm section behind the songs, recording them, and seeing what the American record buying public thought of them.

It won’t surprise you to hear that said Americans loved the demos- so, in 1975, Buari visited the RCA Vict