Kobla Ladzekpo is a Ghanaian musical performer. He is known for being the founder and director of Zadonu African Music and Dance Company, as well as a conductor for the Cal Arts African Music and Dance Ensemble.[1][2]
Ladzekpo was born and raised in Anyako and moved to the United States in the 1960s.[3] He is a drummer, as well as a retired assistant professor of West African dance and music at the University of California, Los Angeles[4] and the California Institute of the Arts.
As "Seth Kobla Ladzekpo", he recorded an album in 1969, Ewe Music of Ghana.[5] He has his own record label, Zadonu Records.[2]
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