During this time Paul Golly (guitar) and Ghanaians Daku Adams "Potato" and Kiki Gyan were also members of the band. The band spent much of the 1970s touring the world, playing to large audiences in Japan, Australia, India, and Africa. Joining them in the first incarnation were Grenadian Spartacus R (bass) Trinidadian Robert Bailey (keyboard) Antiguan Wendell Richardson (lead guitar and lead vocalist) Nigerians Mike Odumosu and Fred Coker (bass guitar) and Lasisi Amao (percussionist and tenor saxophone). In 1969, he persuaded Amarfio and Tontoh to join him in London, and Osibisa was born. In 1964, he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul. They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "(I feel) Pata Pata." In 1962, Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere ( flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers.
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