Kuami Eugene
Afrobeats · Afropop · Highlife
Kuami Eugene is Eugene Kwame Marfo, a highlife and Afrobeats singer, songwriter and producer born in Akim Oda on 1 February 1997. He grew up around…
Biography
Kuami Eugene is Eugene Kwame Marfo, a highlife and Afrobeats singer, songwriter and producer born in Akim Oda on 1 February 1997. He grew up around Fadama in Accra, learned drums, keyboard and guitar at church, and went to the Salvation Army Senior High School.
He came third on MTN Hitmaker season 5 in 2016 and signed with Lynx Entertainment. “Angela” (2017) and its sequel “Confusion” made him a star, and “Wish Me Well” (2018) was his reply to online critics. He won Unsung Artist and then New Artist of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards. His debut album Rockstar (2018) won Album of the Year in 2019, when he also took Producer of the Year and Highlife Artist of the Year. In 2020 he was named Artiste of the Year.
At the 2019 awards Amakye Dede publicly named him his successor in highlife. Albums Son of Africa (2020), Afro Highlife (2021) and Love and Chaos (2023) followed. He moved to Empire in 2022, and Renaissance: Echoes of the Rockstar arrived in 2026. He also produces for other acts.
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