By Empress Gifty is unfazed by comments suggesting that she sounds like Kuami Eugene on her latest track, “Watch Me.”
While some listeners have pointed out similarities in the gospel artist’s vocal delivery and voice texture to Kuami Eugene’s, Empress sees no issue with this.
During her guest appearance on Joy FM’s “Ignition” with aKorfa, she stated that her intention was to deliberately echo Eugene’s sound on the record.
“Kuami Eugene did not sing anything in that song. It’s because I recorded in Kuami Eugene’s studio and Kuami Eugene had everything, he had already composed everything. He has the template when it comes to him.
So I said I didn’t want to sound like Empress. I wanted something different. So I did the backing, I did everything,” she told aKorfa.
She added that Kuami directed the whole recording process and she was humble to listen to him “because he carries something and if you want to tap into somebody’s blessing you need to humble yourself.”
When asked if it doesn’t take anything away from her, she replied: “nothing! I am here. That is ‘Watch Me’. I am here talking about ‘Watch Me’ so it doesn’t take anything. The most important thing is that Kuami wrote the song and I delivered,” she said.
‘Watch Me’, a gospel song delivered in highlife vein talks about the power of God to change unpleasant situations in people’s lives.
It was written, arranged and produced by Kuami Eugene.
