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Ghanaian highlife artiste Nana Yaw Kumi, popularly known in showbiz as Kumi Guitar, has said young musicians run away from highlife because the genre is difficult.

“I feel highlife is very difficult. You need to learn a lot, sometimes you need to get closer to those who have succeeded in the highlife genre because every work has its own tricks. Most of the youth want the easiest way, so they end up doing other genres to get shows to play and also get them money,” he said in an interview on Entertainment Capital on Accra100.5FM on Saturday August 6.

“The unfortunate thing is that the youth are not doing highlife because your choice of words, content, and how the lyrics are arranged is not easy. If you want to sing for money, it will be difficult to choose highlife, it will expose you when it is not done well.”

Kumi Guitar’s single hit ‘Break Into Two’, which featured Guru, got him a nomination at the 2014 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards in the New Artiste of the Year category.