One-time VGMAs Best New Artist, Eugene Marfo, popularly known as Kuami Eugene, has recounted what he did before securing himself his first award at the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs).
The highlife crooner said he took the award in very high esteem.
According to him, he wasn’t ready to lose it to any of his colleagues in the category.
Speaking to Doreen Avio on her show, which aired on Accra-based Joy Prime, the “Angela” hitmaker posited that he had a dream the award was given to another person.
He told his mother, and they started praying and fasting very hard because he wasn’t ready to lose that first award at the VGMAs.
Kuami Eugene added that winning that award is very special to him and that one day he will tell his kids that he won an award in the midst of such great artists.
“It was my first time on the VGMA platform, so I mean the whole VGMA effect with Kuami Eugene being on that platform for the first time was in my brain, and I had trouble letting it go. It was a tight position, and it wouldn’t have been bad if it went to KiDi, King Promise, and my other brothers,” he began.
“I really needed that award because I wanted to be remembered for that in our year; I mean, I wanted to tell my boys I beat KiDi and King Promise. It was a tight position, and two days before the award, I had a dream that I didn’t take the award. I woke up, and I didn’t feel good at all. I had to pray against all the boys. “I told my mum the boys were trying to take the award from me,” Kuami Eugene recounted.
That category was indeed one of the more difficult ones, as young, vibrant and trending artists at the time such as KiDi, King Promise, Kwesi Arthur, Magnom, Kurl Songs, and B4bonah were nominated for “Best New Artist of the Year” alongside the then-newest Lynx Entertainment signee.
He has since been a serial winner at the VGMAs, sweeping the most coveted awards such as the 2020 Artist of the Year Award.
Source: Modern Ghana