Highlife Music Is Slowly Being Forgotten - Kaakyire Kwame Appiah

Kaakyire Kwame Appiah has opined that the music industry is losing its root connection to highlife music.

The legendary Ghanaian artiste argued that highlife isn't played enough on radio stations, making new artistes move away from the genre since they know it won't trend.

It will only be a matter of time before the genre is completely forgotten, he surmised.

He pointed out that the legends who started highlife are no longer around to infuse it into the tradition as most of them have now diverted into other businesses because they felt the needed airplay had not been given to Highlife music on the airwaves.

“Pure Highlife doesn’t get enough airplay because the modern Ghanaian DJ’’s would love to play Afrobeats, Afro-pop, Dancehall, among others and it is understandable because of what the youth prefers nowadays.

“There are not enough Highlife DJ’s in the system now to promote Highlife music and it has made us seem redundant but we have lots of unreleased songs,’

This he said in an interview with GNA Entertainment.

Kaakyire Kwame Appiah explained that the calls to collaborate with other genres might never be answered because the difference in styles had made it difficult.

“There have been calls for us to collaborate more with some modern artistes but the thing is we have different styles and they often struggle to do pure Highlife as we also struggle to do their kind of Highlife.

“I am planning with my other Highlife colleagues to get our unreleased songs out there and champion a course to get more DJs to play our songs to make the genre more relevant,’’ he concluded.