Highlife Musician, KK Fosu, in real life Kaakyire Kwame Fosu says he does not recognise Akwaboah Jnr as a Highlife musician.
According to him, Akwaboah should emulate his father and come up with good highlife tunes and rhythms instead of doing western type of highlife.
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“I don’t see Akwaboah as a highlife musician, I’m saying this because, I feel our leaders in the industry are lost. Akwaboah’s style of music is good, he makes highlife music so sweet, so nice and attractive to Ghanaians, however, I feel he is changing the highlife tunes and rhythms. I started with Akwaboah and he knows what I like when it comes to highlife. We need to promote highlife” he said.
Speaking to Roman Fada on Atinka drive show, the ‘Anadwo yede’ hitmaker said, “highlife music comes with a certain language and tonation, which makes it unique from other genre.”
He emphasized that, highlife songs that were played back then were full of wisdom, proverbs and also used to promote the Ghanaian culture, thus many could easily relate to.
He added that, Ghanaians have lost their identity with regards to music.
Meanwhile he said he appreciates the fact that highlife music is being modernised, but wants the “tunes and rhythms” to be maintained “so that people could still enjoy it better”.
“We are sampling highlife, we are changing it to a different level, but what I’m interested in is our local tunes and rhythms which depict the highlife genre,” he said.
“I love to be addressed as a highlife or hiplife artiste instead of an Afrocentric artiste, because that is where I belong” he added.
KK Fosu is confident that he is a great musician and that Ghanaians should appreciate his talent and stop labelling him as an ache musician.
“it is funny when people tell me my time has passed and that, I am outmoded as a musician. Music doesn’t fade away, it’s an institution that needs investment from the government” he reiterated.
Fosu started music at a tender age with a school choir back in Secondary School.
He joined a live band group named “Soundz Unlimited” where he played for two years. He was later signed by DKB productions and now has five albums to his credit.
K.K. Fosu has also worked with musicians like Obrafour, Obour, Reggie Rockstone and several others.
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