Ace Highlife musician Nana Kwame Ampadu popularly called Adwomtofo) hene to wits King of Musicians has died on Tuesday morning.

Nana Kwame Ampadu who is seen as a pillar in the local Highlife genre and all spheres of Ghanaian music succumbed to an unnamed ailment on Tuesday morning at the Legon Hospital after he fell sick overnight but died shortly.

The song writer, guitarist, singer and story teller was 76 years and hails from Obo-Kwahu in the Eastern Region. but was born at Adiemmra in the Afram Plains in the Eastern Region of Ghana on 31 March 1945,

He was loved for his unique way of telling folklores through most of his songs as it was cleverly interwoven with current life happenings or experiences.

Some of his popular tunes include Obra (which became the theme song for one of the Akan Drama shows aired on GTV on Sundays), GettyOman Bo Adwo, Ebi Te YieKofi NkrabeaYaw Berko and Obi Benya Wo.

Ampadu's "African Brothers Band" was formed in 1963. One of the founding members was Eddie Donkor.

He came to prominence in 1967 when he released his song Ebi Te Yie (or "Some Are Well Seated"), a song that was seen as potentially critical of the then-governing National Liberation Council and disappeared from the airwaves, only returning after the end of military rule.

In 1973 he won a nationwide competition in Ghana to be crowned the Odwontofoohene, or "Singer-in-Chief".

His musical career also involved him in electoral politics, including composing a song for Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress party to use in the 1992 election campaign.

Ampadu also released a song critical of an attempt to disqualify Rawlings from the 1992 election based on him being half-Scottish.