Musicians today can’t tell what highlife music is – Quarme Zaggy

Award-winning Ghanaian highlife singer Nana Kwame Ampah, popularly known by his stage name Quarme Zaggy has emphasized that not every musician in the music industry can tell what highlife music is.
He believes that most musicians in the music industry and also the fans, don’t exactly know what highlife music is.
“ If there should be an open forum for an artist to tell what highlife music really is, not all of them can tell what it is. It is our song but we can’t define it”, he said.
In an interview with Dr Cann on Happy FM’s Showbiz Xtra he stated, “our award schemes sometimes fight and argue before they know which songs are highlife songs”, he said.
Quarme Zaggy shared that, we don’t have to debate on a highlife song to know if it is highlife music or not. We have to be able to recognize it just by hearing it.
He stated that, when Reggae music is been played, everyone knows is Reggae even without further thinking about it.
“Ghanaian music should have an identity so that even children could just notice it”, he said.
He added that the Afro-pop music they do today is all Highlife music but because they came to meet people calling it Afro-pop they think it is Afro-pop.
Quarme Zaggy is known for songs such as, ‘Efa Woho, Just day 2 of us and Bohye’
By: Doreenda Abbey