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– –<\/span> He claims that many people enjoy amazing music, particularly African music, without really understanding the lyrics.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of African songs we don\u2019t understand but still jam to,\u201d Kuami Eugene told Rev. Erskine on Y107.9FM\u2019s Myd Morning Show. \u201cI believe music goes far regardless ergo, you have to perform excellent music and once it sounds nice people jump on it.\u201d<\/p>\n He believes the language barrier will make it difficult for the artist to break into new markets.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cIf you\u2019re able to break through that barrier, then you can do the O2 arena and other places because those coming to watch you want to sing along, and if they don\u2019t understand anything about the music it\u2019s quite difficult,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n He used Nigerians as an example since they sing nearly exclusively in English, a factor he saw as a benefit for the country\u2019s music business.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> READ ALSO:\u00a0My songs don\u2019t sound aggressive like before \u2013 Kuami Eugene<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that they use a lot of pidgin in their music and because it\u2019s English, people understand what\u2019s being said. So, when it\u2019s played somewhere, it doesn\u2019t have to be explained because they can understand everything being said in the song,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The award-winning musician said that it\u2019s not wrong to take pride in one\u2019s roots and culture, and that it\u2019s also not terrible if our music gets out there and people can relate to it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s good but if you really want to get on the international market you have to do something they\u2019ll understand and that means adding a little of what they can relate to,\u201d he discussed.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – Kuami Eugene, a gifted Ghanaian highlife singer and composer, has said that excellent music need not necessarily be in English, contrary to popular belief. He claims that many people enjoy amazing music, particularly African music, without really understanding the lyrics. \u201cThere are a lot of African songs we don\u2019t understand but still jam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1256212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2545,1766,5776,333,5779,1484],"class_list":["post-1256211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-doesnt","tag-english","tag-eugene","tag-good","tag-kuami","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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