FELIX NELSON was born in 1988 and grew up in the Jamestown area of Accra. He followed in the footsteps of his talented parents to become a highly skilled musician, singer, dancer and dance educator. Felix came to the US in 2006 to join his father Zorkie in upstate NY and has been based primarily in Schenectady since. His mother Ayikai Tagoe (stage name “Mama Love”) has been a member of the Accra-based drum/dance group Dadekopon for many years.
In the fall of 2023, Felix Nelson became a King of his ancestral Tabon lineage, a line of the Ga people who migrated back to Ghana from Brazil in the 1880s. Felix has been a member of the jazz combo “Heard” since 2014. He is also active in other traditional Ghanaian performing groups in the area, and as a dance educator. Felix’s charismatic energy and dynamic stage presence can get any crowd or class joyously moving.
Support for in-school programming can be requested through the Arts in Education Program of the Capital Region BOCES.
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