{"id":459577,"date":"2018-01-30T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/30\/fuse-odg-makes-history-as-first-ghanaian-to-win-grammy-award\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T00:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:30:23","slug":"fuse-odg-makes-history-as-first-ghanaian-to-win-grammy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/30\/fuse-odg-makes-history-as-first-ghanaian-to-win-grammy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuse ODG makes history as first Ghanaian to win Grammy award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Monday, 29 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-29<\/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\/32883611.295.jpg\" alt=\"Fuse ODG New Grammy \" title=\"Fuse ODG New Grammy \" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Fuse ODG wins Grammy awards<\/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\/1517272223_262_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">UK-based Ghanaian Singer, Fuse ODG, has made history as the first Ghanaian musician to win the prestigious Grammy Award.<\/p>\n<p>Born, Nana Richard Abiona, Fuse won the award for co-writing Ed Sheeran\u2019s \u2018Divide\u2019 album which won \u2018Best Pop Vocal Album\u2018 at the 2018 Grammy Awards over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018divide\u2019 album which is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was released on March 3, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneer of the \u2018Azonto movement\u2019 also sang on one of the most popular songs on the album titled, \u2018Bibiaa Be Ye Yie\u2019 which was written when Ed Sheeran came to Ghana in 2016 and was produced by Tema based Ghanaian sound engineer, Killbeatz.<\/p>\n<p>Fuse whose songs has topped chart all over UK has won other International awards including the Music of Black Origin (MOBO), African Musik Magazine Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Fuse ODG was born in London and raised in Ghana but returned to London for his secondary education, where he attended the Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon.<\/p>\n<p>He has been promoting the afrobeats music genre in the UK with his New Africa movement by exposing most Ghanaian musicians including Mugeez, Killbeatz, Itz Tiffany, to the UK music fans.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 44 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Monday, 29 January 2018 Source: ghanaguardian.com 2018-01-29 Fuse ODG wins Grammy awards UK-based Ghanaian Singer, Fuse ODG, has made history as the first Ghanaian musician to win the prestigious Grammy Award. 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