Ghanaian hiplife artist, Kuami Eugene, recently criticized popular Ghanaian dance artist and choreographer, Amofa Michael, also known as Incredible Zigi, for his comment about “some artists sleeping.” Eugene found the remark to be childish and disrespectful, as it undermines the hard work and dedication of music artists in the entertainment industry.
Eugene went on to explain that many artists in the music industry are putting in their utmost efforts to create hit songs. They invest significant amounts of money in hiring dancers to enhance their music and make it more successful.
During an interview with Kwadwo Sheldon, which GhanaWeb monitored, Kuami Eugene expressed his disappointment with Incredible Zigi’s assertion that some artists in the music industry are inactive and rely solely on dancers for their success.
“I’m a big fan of Zigi, but that was quite childish. The vibe for the sleeping side, I think it’s a huge disrespect for Zigi to come out and say some of the artistes are sleeping, you don’t know what’s going on,” he said.
“Some of them are charging really big money to actually dance to the music. What he’s doing is not for a fee, but he thinks someone is sleeping. You understand what you’re doing. You’re charging the person before you do it for them.
“So he’s not the first to do this. And this thing has been going on for a very long time. There are some songs that always need dancers. We’ve always needed dancers. And it is just the beauty of the game that brings your efforts, let me bring mine, and let’s make this thing work,” Eugene added.
Kuami Eugene stated that music artistes would never make such a remark about dancers because of the respect they have for dancers.
He said: “But we [Musicians] never went to sit there and say dancers are sleeping before because I’m just speaking for my people. I think we [musicians] respect them that much to say that we won’t post a particular person’s videos again because he dances like he’s asleep.”
Meanwhile, Incredible Zigi has apologised for comments he made about music artistes in the industry.
