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 The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

African Music and Dance Ensemble. Ladzekpo was born and raised in

Anyako Anyako is a town in the Volta Region of Ghana. It is bordered at the south by the Keta lagoon. The inhabitants of the town mainly belong to the Ewe tribe. Tracing its establishment to a settlement founded by the Anlos during the migration from ...

and moved to the United States in the 1960s. He is a drummer, as well as a retired assistant professor of West African dance and music at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

and the California Institute of the Arts. As "Seth Kobla Ladzekpo", he recorded an album in 1969, Ewe Music of Ghana. He has his own record label, Zadonu Records.

References

Possibly living people Year of birth missing {{catimprove, date=January 2024