{"id":463000,"date":"2018-02-09T13:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-still-deserves-female-artist-of-the-year-sonnie-badu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:28","slug":"ebony-still-deserves-female-artist-of-the-year-sonnie-badu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-still-deserves-female-artist-of-the-year-sonnie-badu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony still deserves Female Artist of the year \u2013 Sonnie Badu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Friday,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/89666767.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony Reigns\" title=\"Ebony Reigns\" width=\"295\" height=\"198\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ebony died in a motor accident at Nyame Bekyere in the Brong Ahafo Region Thursday night<\/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\/02\/1518181228_905_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">UK-based Ghanaian gospel musician Sonnie Badu has said despite the demise of the budding Songstress, Ebony Reigns, the latter still deserves to win the Female Artist of the year in the upcoming VGMA.<\/p>\n<p>In a sad post on social media, the Gospel musician wrote:\u201dI am glad I showed you love in the smallest possible way from afar\u2026I still pray you win the female Artist of the year at the upcoming VGMA because you worked hard to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sonnie Badu recently mounted a strong defense for talented singer Ebony.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d urged Ghanaians to rather support the \u2018Hustle\u2019 singer because she was a great talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has his or her own reason for behaving in a certain way, therefore before you criticise anyone, listen to the person\u2019s story and know what they have been through,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Ebony needs is love, not insults because she is indeed a great talent, although she is known for half-naked dressing, she didn\u2019t dress that way when she launched her album recently, and that is why there is the need to know why she sometimes dress that way,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be hypocrites. Most of those who insult her for dressing half naked are the same people who go to watch her shows,\u201d the \u2018Baba\u2019 hit singer further stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial songstress Ebony Reigns died in a motor crash at Bechem in the Brong Ahafo region,the police has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>she was reportedly returning from Sunyani to Accra after a visit to her mother who had returned to Ghana from Abroad, when she was involved in a ghastly car accident Friday dawn, family sources say.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to the Bechem Government Hospital but passed on.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say, Ebony was returning to Accra to make preparations for a trip to abroad for the \u201cGhana Meets Naija\u201d Sweden edition.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony, known in private life as Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, was born on February 16, 1997. She was a very popular Ghanaian dancehall\/Afrobeats artist widely known for her hit songs \u201cPoison\u201d and \u201cKupe\u201d, she was discovered by Bullet, a member of Ruff n Smooth fame.<\/p>\n<p>She was widely tipped to snatch the Artiste of the Year diadem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Be94XP7guFY\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"http:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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 Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-09 Ebony died in a motor accident at Nyame Bekyere in the Brong Ahafo Region Thursday night UK-based Ghanaian gospel musician Sonnie Badu has said despite the demise of the budding Songstress, Ebony Reigns, the latter still deserves to win the Female Artist of the year in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463000","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\/463000","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=463000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}