{"id":463001,"date":"2018-02-09T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-had-a-promising-music-career-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:38","slug":"ebony-had-a-promising-music-career-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-had-a-promising-music-career-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ebony had a promising music career&#8217; &#8211; Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.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\/2018\/01\/54940647.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nana Mourn Sad\" title=\"Nana Mourn Sad\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Akufo-Addo has expressed shock over the demise of multiple award-winning songstress Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng popularly known as Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>In a twitter post, the president wrote, \u201cSaddened by the news of the death of the young, but extremely talented female artiste, Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, aka Ebony Reigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the late songstress had a promising music career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all accounts, she had a very promising music career. My deepest condolences to her family, and to the families of the two others who died in the tragic accident. #RIPEbonysic career\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana woke up, Friday, to the shocking news of sensational artiste, Ebony Reigns\u2019 demise and the pictures trickling in are very disturbing, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony is said to have died in a gory road accident, late Thursday evening on the Sunyani-Kumasi road.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the 20-year-old singer was with another lady and two men on board a Jeep with registration AS 497\u201416 from Sunyani heading towards Kumasi when it collided head-on with a VIP bus heading towards Sunyani from Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The other lady and one of the men, a military officer who is said the be the singer\u2019s bodyguard also died later at the Bechem Government Hospital whilst the other man, who was driving the car is still on admission.<\/p>\n<p>Per the pictures available to GhanaWeb.com, Ebony\u2019s body and two others laid lifeless with blood all over their faces at the accident scene. One was in a military uniform, the other in a white t-shirt while Ebony was in a black top and yellow shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony\u2019s passing comes after rising to stardom and at a time many have tipped her to win Artiste of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>She was known for her risqu\u00e9 onstage acts and erotic performances.<\/p>\n<p>Among her hit songs were \u2018Poison\u2019, \u2018Sponsor\u2019, \u2018Hustle\u2019, \u2018Kupe\u2019 and \u2018Maame Hwe\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/kkhABKFx-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/4JHIDOYB-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/7A1NdqbS-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/18OSt98N-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 3 --><\/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>General News of Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-09 President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Akufo-Addo has expressed shock over the demise of multiple award-winning songstress Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng popularly known as Ebony Reigns. In a twitter post, the president wrote, \u201cSaddened by the news of the death of the young, but extremely talented female [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":457774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463001","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=463001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}