{"id":463115,"date":"2018-02-09T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-death-great-loss-samira-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:19:13","slug":"ebony-death-great-loss-samira-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/ebony-death-great-loss-samira-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony death great loss \u2013 Samira Bawumia"},"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>classfmonline.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\/52302430.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony Church. E\" title=\"Ebony Church. E\" width=\"295\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Late Ebony<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518207553_915_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana\u2019s music industry has lost a great talent, Samira Bawumia, wife of Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said in memory of dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony and two others died in a car crash on Thursday, 8 February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is sad to hear of the passing of @ebony_reigns. The music industry has lost a great talent and she will be sorely missed by all of her fans. My condolences to her family and the families of her two companions who also passed away. May they rest in peace,\u201d Mrs Bawumia tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Dr Bawumia, former president John Mahama and host of celebrities in the country have all tweeted to commiserate with the families of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony was discovered by renowned musician Bullet of Ruff n Smooth fame when she sent a recording of her voice and was signed to his Rufftown record label just a day after listening to the recording.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony came out with her first single, &#8220;Dancefloor&#8221;, in December 2015. The song became a hit on radio landing her nomination for the unsung category at the 2016 Ghana Music Awards. In March 2016, Ebony released her major hit single &#8220;Kupe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest song \u201cMaame Hwe\u201d is enjoying massive airplay across the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">It is sad to hear of the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ebony_reigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ebony_reigns<\/a>. The music industry has lost a great talent and she will be sorely missed by all of her fans. My condolences to her family and the families of her two companions who also passed away.<\/p>\n<p>May they rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Samira Bawumia (@SBawumia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBawumia\/status\/961961006401572864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WYoVJ7i8H7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 31 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/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>General News of Friday, 9 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-09 Late Ebony Ghana\u2019s music industry has lost a great talent, Samira Bawumia, wife of Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said in memory of dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns. Ebony and two others died in a car crash on Thursday, 8 February 2018. \u201cIt is sad to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":422398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463115","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\/463115","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=463115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}