{"id":449176,"date":"2017-12-21T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/performing-secular-songs-part-of-letting-people-know-christ-joyce-blessing\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:30:30","slug":"performing-secular-songs-part-of-letting-people-know-christ-joyce-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/performing-secular-songs-part-of-letting-people-know-christ-joyce-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing secular songs part of letting people know Christ &#8211; Joyce Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday, 21 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/22578512.295.jpg\" alt=\"Secular Song Joyce 3\" title=\"Secular Song Joyce 3\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Joyce Blessing<\/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=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513895430_656_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Gospel artiste Joyce Blessing says she does not regret defending her performance on secular stages and singing secular songs in any way.<\/p>\n<p>On December 1, the musician attended the S Concert where she performed some songs of secular artistes including Nigeria\u2019s Korede Bello, Phyno as well as Lil Win\u2019s Ladder.<\/p>\n<p>The gospel fraternity and entertainment critics have heavily descended on her calling her a \u2018hypocrite\u2019 for mounting a \u2018secular\u2019 stage in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Heavy Price\u2019 singer has put up a spirited defence that she was only expressing her versatility.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Hitz FM\u2019s Daniella Adu Asare at the just ended Worship Above Reason (W.A.R) concert, Joyce Blessing said her critics have it all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever. I will never feel that way because I am doing my job. I was there to let them know what I have and that is Jesus Christ, and that\u2019s what I did; I gave them Jesus Christ,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She stated emphatically \u201cthere is no regret at all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Zylofon Media signee also revealed that apart from her collaboration with fellow record label mate Becca on their song \u2018Mo\u2019, future collaborations with other secular acts, are highly possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 44 updated by: 44 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\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\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\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\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\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\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\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\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\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Thursday, 21 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-21 Joyce Blessing Gospel artiste Joyce Blessing says she does not regret defending her performance on secular stages and singing secular songs in any way. On December 1, the musician attended the S Concert where she performed some songs of secular artistes including Nigeria\u2019s Korede Bello, Phyno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Performing secular songs part of letting people know Christ - Joyce Blessing - 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\/2017\/12\/21\/performing-secular-songs-part-of-letting-people-know-christ-joyce-blessing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Performing secular songs part of letting people know Christ - Joyce Blessing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Entertainment of Thursday, 21 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-21 Joyce Blessing Gospel artiste Joyce Blessing says she does not regret defending her performance on secular stages and singing secular songs in any way. 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