Lynx Entertainment frontrunner Kuame Eugene has stated that although the genre he specializes in is not wholly Highlife, he still tries to retain the Highlife concept as a musician.
The Ghanaian star revealed this to Pan African Music (PAM) in a fresh interview. On the evolution of Highlife fragmented into Afrobeat which has become the new identity of the young crop of artistes from Ghana and Nigeria, the singer has this to say;
The whole point of Afro Highlife is to dive into the Afrobeats market as well, but then again not go too far from what we’re doing: highlife music. I d on’t want my people to be now saying ‘oh, Kuami is now selling out.
He’s trying to make music internationally and not focus on us anymore’. The project actually pleases everyone. Internationally and locally.
When the interviewer asked him about any parallel between the 1970s and 1980s highlife singers, and the contemporary Ghanaian and Nigerian superstars, he said, ‘We don’t do the kind of music they do anymore.
There is more heavy bass now, there is more electronic, the beats and the rhythms are different. I mean, we need to change it because the world is evolving.
But besides that, I think the similarities between what we do and what they used to do is the lyrics. Lyrics are just words and language. And we say the same things they used to say.’
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
