{"id":76191,"date":"2023-06-14T19:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/14\/i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-king-of-highlife-amakye-dede\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T19:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:54:38","slug":"i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-king-of-highlife-amakye-dede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/14\/i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-king-of-highlife-amakye-dede\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Forced To Crown Kuami Eugene \u2018King of Highlife\u2019- Amakye Dede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Amakye Dede crowning Kuami Eugene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veteran highlife musician, Amakye Dede has reiterated his earlier claims that he didn\u2019t crown young musician, Kuami Eugene; King of Highlife at the 2019 Ghana  Awards out of his own will.<br \/>According to him, he was forced to do it.<br \/>At the 2019 Ghana  Award, Amakye crowned Kuami Eugene on stage as King Of High Life.<br \/>The incident received a huge backlash at the time with some music connoisseurs registering their displeasure about it.<br \/>Speaking in an interview on Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday, Amakye Dede explained that he didn\u2019t want to do it but he ended up crowning him because he was forced to.<br \/>However, he stated that it was not his decision to crown the young man.<br \/>\u201cThough I did that, it was not my will to do so. They forced me to crown Kuami Eugene,\u201d he indicated.<br \/>\u201cI 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,\u201d he added.<br \/>Amakye\u2019s statement suggested that the act was an agenda by the organizers of the award at the time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amakye Dede crowning Kuami Eugene \u00a0 Veteran highlife musician, Amakye Dede has reiterated his earlier claims that he didn\u2019t crown young musician, Kuami Eugene; King of Highlife at the 2019 Ghana Awards out of his own will.According to him, he was forced to do it.At the 2019 Ghana Award, Amakye crowned Kuami Eugene on stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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