{"id":465378,"date":"2018-02-18T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/ebony-one-week-memorial-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T15:00:27","slug":"ebony-one-week-memorial-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/18\/ebony-one-week-memorial-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony one-week memorial in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 18 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-18<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/50651607.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony One Week Memorial 10\" title=\"Ebony One Week Memorial 10\" width=\"295\" height=\"393\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Late Ebony&#8217;s one-week memorial underway<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518966025_785_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Scores of persons have thronged the premises of the St. Martin De Porres school in Dansoman to join in the one-week commemoration of Dancehall act Ebony Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of sympathizers including ministers, musicians, members of musiga, fans and friends are on the grounds to extend their condolences to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p>In any typical Ghanaian society, after the passing of a dear one, family and friends meet a week after the death mainly to make plans towards the organization of the funeral rites and also give opportunity for those who may not have been able to a pay courtesy call to the family, to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Ebony died alongside two others &#8211; Franky Kuri and Lance Corporal Vondee Atsu &#8211; who were with her in a vehicle journeying to Accra from Sunyani.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018sponsor\u2019 hit maker died alongside two others, a close friend and a military officer who according to her father, was her bodyguard.<\/p>\n<p>Born 16 February 1997 Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng aka Ebony, Ghanaian dancehall\/Afrobeats artist  who is widely known for her hits \u2018Sponsor\u2019 and \u2018Kupe\u2019, was exposed to the music industry by  Bullet her manager.<\/p>\n<p>She proved herself worthy to be maintained in the industry after her first song &#8220;Dancefloor&#8221;, in December 2015 became a hit and was nominated for the unsung category at the 2016 Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from the event:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/50651607.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/76185710.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/96242477.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/45192476.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/65721566.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/57469546.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/99647452.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/40608812.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/70478842.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/97823693.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16005462.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/74521848.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y2OMuFzvCc8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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Dozens of sympathizers including ministers, musicians, members of musiga, fans and friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465378","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\/465378","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=465378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}