AGYA KOO & ICE KENKEY PERFORMS LIVE IN NEW YORK.

When it comes to Ghanaian concert party entertainment,two personalities stand ahead of all the others. The two giants, Ice Kenkey and Agya Koo,Ghana's most popular comedians are descending on New York in April to present their brand of entertainment that has made them the most sort-after duo in the West African nation of Ghana.

The special concert party program, GHANA SUPER CONCERT is taken place at St. Joseph Church Hall and the Breakthorough Evangelistic Ministry Hall between April 10th,17th and 24th in New York City. The promoters, Bridges Sounds and Entertainment Inc. is not new in showbiz,having succesfully organized the 2006 Ghana Xmas Highlife Music Expo that featured the great Eric Agyeman of Kokroko fame,Obuaba J.A.Adofo and Kaakyire Kwame Appiah.

According to the managements of the Bridges Sounds and Entertainments, all preparations are in place for this one of a kind entertainment to rock New York City to its foundation for the Ghanaian communities.

Mr. Ice Kenkey, whose real name is Kwaku Danquah is a native of Akuapem Larteh. Ice Kenkey, who has worked so hard, has been in show business for about 18 years. He is the founder of Powerlight Concert Party,currently the leading concert band in Ghana, which he is traveling with as his back-up band in the USA tour.

Ice Kenkey has won many national recognition for his artistic exploits as a comedian. The awards includes 1999 Runner Up position in the Key Soap Concert Party Show Awards Night. He also won the Best Entertainer. Best Comedian Second runners up 2000.

Before he formed his own band, Ice Kenkey played for African Heroes Band led by Osei Kofi, a music apprentice of Ghana's highlife music living legend Nana Kwame Ampadu.

Ice Kenkey has made a name for himself as a comedian and his popularity has reached beyond Ghana. He has traveled and performed to sold out Ghanaian and multicultural audiences in London-United Kingdom in 2002), Germany,Belgium and Italy (2006). He was recently invited to the United States where he was signed on by the Bridges Sounds & Entertainment for the GhanaFest program slated for this Summer.

Adu Kofi Mensah, otherwise known as Agya Koo was born in 1969. He played drums for the Heavens Action Ministry at Akwatia Line,Kumasi. In 1990 he traveled to Accra to look for a band to play but it was not easy as he had thought, so he has to ply a trade as a shoe maker till 1996 when the Agoro Beso Concert Party signed him on as a singer and trained him as an actor. As it turn out, he worked diligently as a comedian instead and has since been featured in over 90 Ghanaian movies, 15 of which remain his favorite, since his introduction to the Ghanaian film industry. Demand for movies that he has featured in are tremendous.

Agya Koo aka "Braam" as a comedian has not specialized in a particular area in acting but can act in any role given to him by any Ghanaian film director. With speciality in playing the roles of an old men, lover boy, wealthy person or in poverty, he is always the toast of his fans.

Among the numerous movies he has featured in are " Nsem Pii" " Adeefour" Asor Panyin",Kumasi Nyonko) etc.

These are the two main stars for the Ghana Super Concert Party USA tours and Ghanaian concert party enthusiasts will have their money worth and will laugh their hearts out. According to Mr. Samuel Dwamena, the director of the promoting company, calls from distant places such as California, Virgina, DC, Georgia and Texas have started coming from Ghanaians inquiring about the program and tickets. He continued, that he is not leaving any stone unturned to make sure this program will be the Ghana Diaspora show of the year.

To all Ghanaians in the Tri-States area, this is your opportunity to experience the best in Ghanaian comedy. Do you know that laughing has medicinal properties? Recent scientific studies and report on a US national televison shows that laughing has therapeutic values. Well, if you know this then, take time off your job, boredom at home and come and laugh your lungs out. "Ebeye braam braam and Butubutu".

For ticket information and venue details contact Mr. Akoto @`(718)515-6110 OR (646)418-3761.