Lynx Entertainment signed artist, Eugene Kwame Marfo, well known as Kuami Eugene has poured out his concerns in how Ghanaians are mostly seen on the video-sharing platform, TikTok jamming to songs from other musicians from other countries rather than using Ghanaian songs in their videos.
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According to the “Bunker” hitmaker, the Highlife genre is mostly not credited by social media influencers because they refuse to make it trend on social media and rather channel their energies in promoting that of other countries in their TikTok videos.
Speaking in a recent interview with Foster Agor on Starr FM, Kuami Eugene stated that the older folks who have fought so hard to maintain the highlife genre should not be discredited for their enormous contributions to the Ghanaian music industry.
Our old folks did their best with highlife, the fact that we have a genre called Highlife which was maintained by our older folks, we shouldn’t discredit them for their contribution, it is our job to carry on the legacy. Currently, we have social media market, we are doing Tiktok and Snapchat these days, our focus should be to entice people with Ghanaian music when they are doing Tiktok and Snapchat”, he said.
He further added that Highlife should be the nation’s first priority because we the next generation are expecting a lot from us and should we fail, we have no excuse for that.