{"id":451888,"date":"2018-01-03T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/03\/its-been-a-blessed-year-rocky-dawuni-reflects-on-the-year-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:00:31","slug":"its-been-a-blessed-year-rocky-dawuni-reflects-on-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/03\/its-been-a-blessed-year-rocky-dawuni-reflects-on-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a blessed year &#8211; Rocky Dawuni reflects on the year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Wednesday,  3 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Spyderlee Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/19529322.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Dawuni New1\" title=\"Rocky Dawuni New1\" width=\"295\" height=\"172\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Rocky Dawuni<\/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\/2018\/01\/1514995231_31_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghanaian international afro music star and humanitarian activist Rocky Dawuni is reflecting on the year 2017 and the many successes he chalked.<\/p>\n<p>The musician who is currently cooling off in Ghana for the holidays revealed to Spyderlee Entertainment TV\u2019s Presenter Pamela Boateng  during the just ended MUSIGA Presidential Grand Ball held at the State Banquet Hall that 2017 was a great year for him because of some of the  great projects he embarked on.<\/p>\n<p>\u20182017 has been a year full of highs. It\u2019s a year that I did a lot of work in terms of my UN works. I collaborated and traveled a lot on behalf of the UN. I was invited by the government of Canada and had the privilege of spending time with the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2026 I also traveled to India and spent time with some Grammy nominees and winners\u2026 For me, it was a year that I  was leveraging my music more to impact for social action and that\u2019s something I\u2019ve been working on for a long time,\u2019 the African star said.<\/p>\n<p>He continued; \u2018another thing that also happened was the second lady Samira Bawumia and I were appointed as Ambassadors for \u2018Clean Cook stoves\u2019 so that was another privilege to address social, feminine and environmental issues. So in all, 2017 was a blessed year of music, activism and achieving great heights.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018African Soccer Fever\u2019 crooner further stated that one of his prospects for the New Year is the release of his new album.<\/p>\n<p>When asked how he\u2019s positioned himself to groom other Ghanaian acts to be nominated for a Grammy or any international award scheme, the 2016 \u2018Best Reggae Album\u2019 Grammy nominee articulated that since his nomination, the door has now been opened for all Ghanaian musicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The way has already been opened. Before my nomination in Ghana\u2019s history, we had never been to the Grammys. So opening the door has given everyone the confidence to walk in. Every Ghanaian artiste on the international platform is being recognized now because of the work we\u2019ve done. When it comes to the Grammys, Ghana is already on the map because of my nomination. So now, any artist has the opportunity to be nominated and win it. 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The musician who is currently cooling off in Ghana for the holidays revealed to Spyderlee Entertainment TV\u2019s Presenter Pamela Boateng during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":451890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}