Amakye Dede remains Ghana’s king of highlife- 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.

Amakye Dede in an interview 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 added.