{"id":76313,"date":"2023-06-15T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/15\/i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-as-the-new-king-of-highlife-music-amakye-dede\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:25:00","slug":"i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-as-the-new-king-of-highlife-music-amakye-dede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/15\/i-was-forced-to-crown-kuami-eugene-as-the-new-king-of-highlife-music-amakye-dede\/","title":{"rendered":"I was forced to crown Kuami Eugene as the \u201cNew king of Highlife music\u201d- Amakye Dede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"867\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5477-696x867.webp.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5477\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Highlife music legend, Amakye Dede has revealed that it was never his will to crown Kuami Eugene as the \u201cNew King of Highlife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he was forced to do the crowning on stage at the 2019 edition of the Vodafone Ghana  Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough I did that, it was not my will to do so. They forced me to crown Kuami Eugene,\u201d he said in an interview on Asaase Radio.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>The Veteran high-life musician had crowned Lynx Entertainment signee, Kuami Eugene as the future of high-life music at the 2019 VGMAs.<\/p>\n<p>The two thrilled patrons to an amazing performance at the VGMAs and in the middle of the performance, Amakye Dede paused to say that \u201che thought high-life music was dead, but Kuami Eugene has restored hope in him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He went ahead to put a crown on Kuami Eugene\u2019s head and blessed him to continue keeping the genre alive.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlife music legend, Amakye Dede has revealed that it was never his will to crown Kuami Eugene as the \u201cNew King of Highlife.\u201d According to him, he was forced to do the crowning on stage at the 2019 edition of the Vodafone Ghana Awards. \u201cThough I did that, it was not my will to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76313","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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