Amakye Dede, a highlife music legend, has revealed that it was never his intention to crown Kuami Eugene as the “New King of Highlife.”
According to him, he was forced to crown the winner on stage at the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
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“Though I did that, it was not my will to do so. They forced me to crown Kuami Eugene,” he said in an interview on Asaase Radio.
“I even gave the crown they handed over to me to someone to put it down, but they later said, no I have to crown him, and I did it,” he added.
At the 2019 VGMAs, the veteran high-life musician crowned Lynx Entertainment signee Kuami Eugene as the future of high-life music.
At the VGMAs, the two wowed the audience with an incredible performance, and in the middle of it, Amakye Dede paused to say, “he thought high-life music was dead, but Kuami Eugene has restored hope in him.”
He then placed a crown on Kuami Eugene’s head and blessed him to keep the genre alive.
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