Amakye Dede remains Ghana’s king of highlife, says Zapp Mallet

Emmanuel Mallet also known as Zapp Mallet, an award-winning recording engineer and a record producer, has said highlife legend Amakye Dede remains Ghana’s king of highlife.

The veteran Ghanaian highlife musician has come under fire for crowning young highlife and Afrobeat singer, Kuami Eugene, as the future king of highlife in Ghana at the 2019 VGMAs.

Appearing on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Wednesday, Amakye Dede revealed that he did so under duress.

“Though I did that, it was not my will to do so. They forced me to crown Kuami Eugene,” he said.

“I 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,” the great voice behind ”Su fre wo Nyame” said.

For his part, Mallet said: “I thought he was just crowning him, I didn’t know it was a mantle that he was giving him.”

“I don’t see why a certain king should crown another person… but right now as the details are coming, it sounds different to me, so we will leave it like that,” Mallet said on Thursday’s edition of the Asaase Breakfast Show.

Listen to Zapp Mallet in the attached audio clip below: 

Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra

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