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New Doc 'Too Much Music' Reclaims Kiki Gyan's Story From the Margins

A Ghanaian keyboardist's legacy was buried under silence—until a filmmaker decided to dig.

Director Aseye Fiagbe grew up hearing the music of Kiki Gyan, the legendary Ghanaian keyboardist who played with the band Osibis. But here's the thing: all she really knew about him was how he died. The rest—his life, his vision, his actual story—stayed locked away.

That gap bothered her enough to make a documentary about it. Too Much Music isn't just a music history project; it's about something deeper: who gets to tell an artist's story, and why so many of the realest ones get left in the dark.

It's a familiar pattern. A musician shapes culture, influences the sound of a generation, then gets reduced to a footnote or a death notice. Fiagbe's doc flips the script, centering Gyan's life and work instead of the tragedy. That's the kind of reclamation work hip-hop culture knows well—pulling buried artists back into the light where they belong.

This one's worth paying attention to.


Read the full story at The Hollywood Reporter → https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/too-much-music-doc-film-ghana-kiki-gyan-locarno-open-doors-1236673554/

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