The Nananom band was formed in the year 2008 by Opoku Mensah who has traveled around the world and performed with great musicians such as Hugh Masakela, Salif Keita and so on. His aim for forming this group is to send Ghanaian music to the world.
Nananom Band is made up six professional musicians who has been in the field for years.the band resides in Accra but goes to every part of the world to perform. Nananom was in Astana, Russia recently to perform at the world Expo, they also been to many different countries to perform.
Countries they have been to perform are Dubai , Egypt, South Korea and Senegal. The band has also performance both locally and international concerts on the local platforms all over Ghana.
In Ghana as at now, the Nananom band is the most popular band in Ghana and West Africa. They are booked almost every weekend unless they performing with the award winning best pianist and best African music composer,Opoku Mensah. Others call him the African Show Boy.