Incredible Zigi’s “artistes are sleeping” comment was childish, disrespectful- Kuami Eugene

Multiple award-winning highlife musician, Kuami Eugene has referred to dancer, Incredible Zigi’s  “artistes are sleeping and we are the ones blowing the songs,” comment as childish.

According to the Lynx Entertainment signee, Zigi’s comment was disrespectful to the artistes who pay dancers and influencers huge sums of money for their music to be pushed to a wider audience.

In an interview with Content Creator Kwadwo Sheldon, Kuami Eugene said;

“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.

“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.”

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The “Angela” hitmaker explained that artistes and dancers have always moved in tandem, both needing each other to grow.

“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,” he added.

He also added that artistes value the input of dancers and will never make such remarks about them.

“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.”

The popular dancer had in an interview on Hitz FM expressed his desire for a dance category to be included in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.

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According to him, dancers contribute immensely to the success of songs released by artistes.

“Most of these songs that are getting recognition in Ghana are tailored by dancers. We spend much time on social media posting the songs.

He added; It’s like the artists are sleeping and we are the ones blowing the song. Dancers need to be awarded on a big platform like the VGMA,” he said.

Zigi’s comment received a lot of backlash on social media, and he has since rendered an unqualified apology, while giving more insight into his comment.