Mustapha Tettey Addy

{{short description|Ghanaian drummer}}

{{BLP sources section|date=April 2020}}File:Mustapha Tettey Addy's Obonu Drummers at Kokrobite.jpg

Mustapha Tettey Addy (born 1942 in Avenor, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian master drummer and ethnomusicologist.{{Cite book|last=Gruppe|first=Bucher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6zK2cQAACAAJ|title=Musik in Ghan: Osibisa, Hiplife, Kpanlogo, Mustapha Tettey Addy, Shékere, Atenteben, Axatse|date=July 2010|publisher=General Books LLC|isbn=978-1-159-19213-6|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Mustapha Tettey Addy - African Master Drummer From Ghana|url=http://www.african-music-safari.com/mustapha-tettey-addy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013223409/http://www.african-music-safari.com/mustapha-tettey-addy.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 13, 2010|access-date=2020-08-17|website=African Music Safari}}{{Cite journal|last=Collins|first=Edmund John|date=1987|title=Jazz Feedback to Africa|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3052161|journal=American Music|volume=5|issue=2|pages=176–193|doi=10.2307/3052161|jstor=3052161|issn=0734-4392|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|title=Mustapha Tettey Addy|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/986668-Mustapha-Tettey-Addy|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Discogs|language=en}} Addy is the founder of The Obonu Drummers, which performs creative drumming composed by Addy that is based upon the royal Obonu drumming of the Ga people and other Ghanaian drumming forms. He has recorded many albums and has performed extensively in Africa and Europe, and briefly in North America in the early 1970s and late 1990s.{{Cite web|title=Mustapha Tettey Addy - New Songs, Playlists & Latest News - BBC Music|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/cdae64b7-2783-4746-a032-bac203b05741|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-26}}{{Cite web|title=Mustapha Tettey Addy: Biography|url=http://www.weltwunder.com/mta.en.html|access-date=2020-08-17|website=www.weltwunder.com}}{{Cite web|title=Mustapha Tettey Addy - African Master Drummer From Ghana|url=http://www.african-music-safari.com/mustapha-tettey-addy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013223409/http://www.african-music-safari.com/mustapha-tettey-addy.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 13, 2010|access-date=2020-08-17|website=African Music Safari}}{{Cite web|last=Romero|first=Angel|title=Artist Profiles: Mustapha Tettey Addy {{!}} World Music Central.org|url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2018/06/19/artist-profiles-mustapha-tettey-addy/|access-date=2020-08-17|language=en-US}}

He founded the Academy of African Music and Arts (AAMA) at Kokrobite beach near Accra in 1988.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/quiet-please-drum-lesson-in-progress-140055.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/quiet-please-drum-lesson-in-progress-140055.html |archive-date=2022-06-18 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Quiet please. Drum lesson in progress|date=2002-10-13|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2020-04-29}}