Alaba Pedro was born on the 22nd of November 1939. He started his musical career notably with the Roy Chicago and His Rhythm Dandies band in 1961 to replace Mike Enahoro a fine guitarist who left for England at the time. Pedro’s guitar playing assumed an authoritative status in the eighties and he was considered one of the leading exponents of this instrument as he provided studio sessions to almost all notable bands around at the time. He contributed guitar sessions to the works of Charles Iwegbue, Inyang Henshaw, Hubert Ogunde, and others. Pedro got a job as the leader of the UPN band in 1979 a big outfit that disbanded in 1981. Alaba later led a very formidable combo band whose music is a blend of the old and the new. The guitar was his customary instrument, but he later became an accomplished singer-composer whose songs reach out professionally in terms of vocalization and instrumentation. Pedro, later a perfectionist on the Keyboard was not particularly steeped in the tradition of Roy Chicago his mentor. His sources of inspiration were many and are mainly Ghanaian-oriented. He did several highlife works including Emu Originally composed by Hubert Ogunde one of his past mentors. This master of guitar strokes took his exit on the 20th of July 2011 at the age of 72.