{"id":438401,"date":"2017-11-18T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/18\/stop-calling-me-gospel-artiste-cwesi-oteng-tells-ghanaians\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T01:00:28","slug":"stop-calling-me-gospel-artiste-cwesi-oteng-tells-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/18\/stop-calling-me-gospel-artiste-cwesi-oteng-tells-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop calling me &#8216;gospel artiste&#8217; &#8211; Cwesi Oteng tells Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Saturday, 18 November 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>yen.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2017-11-18<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/30659216.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cwesi Oteng Boycott\" title=\"Cwesi Oteng Boycott\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Cwesi Oteng promotes Christ through his music<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151057541695353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151057541695353\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1510966828_4_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Award-wining Ghanaian gospel singer, Cwesi Oteng is urging Ghanaians to desist from branding him as gospel artiste.<\/p>\n<p>According to the musician, being labeled as gospel artiste in Ghana is \u2018baseless and overrated\u2019. Speaking on Hitz FM in an interview on Friday, Cwesi Oteng insisted that Ghanaians should rather tag him a \u2018Christian\u2019 artiste since it perfectly describes his mission as a musician propagating the gospel of Christ. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s overused and become baseless to me. I prefer to be called a Christian artiste because it moves with my purpose, plan, and vision; anyone can be a gospel artiste now so I prefer this,\u201d he told the host. He also added that he is pushing heavenly agenda through his music ministry and wouldn\u2019t want to be limited in his vision. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to be urban, contemporary artiste. I am a Christian artiste. People want that, and I am not interested. I was not called to establish that. I am pushing a Christ agenda that is heavenly,\u201d Cwesi said. The \u2018Christian\u2019 artiste further lambasted artistes who resort to controversies to express their opinion about others in their bid to be famous. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have a lot of nonsense to face. I am a no nonsense person. But people like to box people with their opinions and I\u2019m not to be boxed\u2026\u201d I decided to be a great person when I was growing up and I prepared towards it. 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According to the musician, being labeled as gospel artiste in Ghana is \u2018baseless and overrated\u2019. 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