Musician, Kuami Eugene has postponed the “thank you Akyem Oda” concert originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 6, 2021, at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region.
The decision to indefinitely postpone the concert aimed at appreciating support given him by his birthplace -Akyem Oda in his music career, is a result of the ban on social gatherings by President Akufo Addo to contain the spread of the second wave of coronavirus which has already killed 416 in the country.
Eugene Kwame Marfo who goes by the stage name Kuami Eugene is a Ghanaian Highlife and Afrobeat singer-Songwriter.
Kuami Eugene was born to Alex and Juliana Marfo at Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region on February 1, 1997.
His interest in music led him to sing in the church from a very young age where he also learned how to play the drum, keyboard, and guitar. Kuami Eugene dropped out of school because of his love for music and spent more than two months studying music in a studio located in the Eastern Region without informing the school authority and his mother.
He was later expelled from school after it was discovered that he had skipped school. He attended Salvation Army Senior High School located at Akyem Wenchi. The young artiste, who grew up in the environs of Fadama, a suburb of Accra furthered his education at Ghana Telecom University.
He is signed to Lynx Entertainment and is known for several songs, including “Angela”, “Wish Me Well”, “Ohemaa” and many others. He won the New Artist awards in 2018 from the Ghana Music Awards and the Ghana Music Awards-UK.
He also received the Most Promising Artiste in Africa award from AFRIMA. In 2019, he received 7 nominations at the Ghana Music Awards and went on to win the awards for Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, and Highlife Artiste of the Year.
He has crowned Artiste of the Year and Highlife Artiste of the Year at the 2020 Ghana Music Awards.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah/additional file from Oda Citizens