Cab Kaye

Niilante Augustus Kwamlah Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye , was an English jazz singer, pianist, band leader, entertainer, drummer, guitarist and songwriter of Ghanaian and Dutch descent. He was influenced by Billie Holiday and often accompanied himself on piano with a graceful rhythmic style. He combined blues, bebop, stride and scat with the music of his African and Ghanaian musical heritage.

Cab Kaye, also known as Cab Quay, Cab Quaye and Kwamlah Quaye, was born on St. Giles High Street in Camden, London to a musical family. His Ghanaian greatgrandfather was an asafo warrior drummer and his grandfather, Henry Quaye, was an organist for the Methodist Mission church in the former Gold Coast, now called Ghana. Cabs mother, Doris Balderson, sang in English music halls and his father, Caleb Jonas Quaye , performed under the name Ernest Mope Desmond as musician, band leader, pianist and percussionist. With his blues piano style, Caleb Jonas Quaye became popular around 1920 in London and Brighton with his band The Five Musical Dragons in Murrays Club with, among others, Arthur Briggs, Sidney Bechet and George Bobo Hines.

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