{"id":315932,"date":"2016-01-23T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wiyaala-deserves-to-be-a-major-intl-star\/"},"modified":"2016-01-23T07:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:10:38","slug":"wiyaala-deserves-to-be-a-major-intl-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/23\/wiyaala-deserves-to-be-a-major-intl-star\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wiyaala Deserves To Be A Major Int\u2019l Star\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-area\" readability=\"84\">\n<div class=\"post-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/\u2018Wiyaala-Deserves-To-Be-A-Major-Int\u2019l-Star\u2019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Wiyaala\"\/><\/div>\n<p><!--post-image--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><!-- [leadin: 0 urCount: 0 urMax: 0] --><br \/>\n<!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><\/p>\n<p>Musician Wiyaala deserves to be a major international star, says Jon Benjamin, the British High Commissioner to Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin told hosts of <em>Live Breakfast Club<\/em> on Live FM, Jay Foley and Jeremie, he believes that Wiyaala is an asset to the Ghana music industry and should be celebrated.<br \/>\u201cHere in Ghana, we\u2019ve particularly been promoting Noella Wiyaala. We really hope that she is going to make a big breakthrough this year. I really think she will be a major international star for Ghana. I hope so, she deserves to be,\u201d Jon Benjamin added.<\/p>\n<p>Wiyaala launched her self-titled album at an impressive event at the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise in 2014, and won The Most Promising Artiste and The Revelation of the African Continent at the All Africa Music Awards weeks after the launch.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in about five years, she dethroned Efya as the winner of the Best Female Vocalist at the Ghana Music Awards 2015.<\/p>\n<p>On her recent visit to the UK, Wiyaala, aka the Lioness of Africa, used the opportunity to shoot a stunning video for her song\u00a0\u2018<em>Leno\u2019<\/em>, which is set to drop on February 1.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Leno\u2019 <\/em>which means \u2018This Place\u2019, is inspired by the spirit of love and tells the story of a\u00a0young man going about his business, when he hears an enchanting female voice coming from the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Bewitched by the song, he enters the forest in search of its source and comes face to face with a mysterious beautiful African woman with whom he falls in love at first sight. She leads him to \u2018This Place\u2019 (Leno) and he experiences the overwhelming power of love.<\/p>\n<p>On that screen kiss, Wiyaala refuses to be drawn, saying only, \u201cif the story requires me to kiss on screen, then I\u2019ll do it as a professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The music video is a Djimba World Production, directed by Charlotte Appleton, shot entirely on location in East Yorkshire and in the historic city of York in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 --><br \/>\n<!-- [leadout: 1 urCount: 1 urMax: 0] --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.60 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Musician Wiyaala deserves to be a major international star, says Jon Benjamin, the British High Commissioner to Ghana. Benjamin told hosts of Live Breakfast Club on Live FM, Jay Foley and Jeremie, he believes that Wiyaala is an asset to the Ghana music industry and should be celebrated.\u201cHere in Ghana, we\u2019ve particularly been promoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Wiyaala Deserves To Be A Major Int\u2019l Star\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/01\/23\/wiyaala-deserves-to-be-a-major-intl-star\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Wiyaala Deserves To Be A Major Int\u2019l Star\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Musician Wiyaala deserves to be a major international star, says Jon Benjamin, the British High Commissioner to Ghana. 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