{"id":465802,"date":"2018-02-20T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ebony-reigns-on-in-a-million-of-hearts\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:41:10","slug":"ebony-reigns-on-in-a-million-of-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ebony-reigns-on-in-a-million-of-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebony \u2018Reigns\u2019 on &#8211; in a million of hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/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\/43822953.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ebony S Queen 12345\" title=\"Ebony S Queen 12345\" width=\"295\" height=\"443\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns died in a gory accident<\/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\/1519101670_144_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> She might have reigned in her music career for a brief period but the love shown her by Ghanaians on Sunday at the one-week observation of her passing speaks volumes of one sure thing, \u201cEbony still Reigns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They poured out in thousands from all walks of life:  the young and the old; the high and low in society;  the fanatic fans and neutral admirers; dressed in their own best mourning clothes to mourn the 20-year old musician whose candle burned out long before her legend will ever will.<\/p>\n<p>The turnout was unimaginable as heavy human traffic forced the Police Service to block the road leading to the venue in Dansoman.<\/p>\n<p>The locals were overwhelmed by the thick crowd but had to soak in what perhaps was the heaviest traffic they had witnessed in years at the area. As the tunes of her music hit the decibels of the grieving ears of mourners, they all joined to hail the reign of Queen Ebony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaame Hwee\u201d;  \u201cDate Your Father\u201d ; Hustle\u201d ; \u201cKupe\u201d ; \u201cAseda\u201d; \u201c Poison\u201d  &#8211; they sang along with all their energies.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the force and the titillation, which continually drowned the tears and agony in the background , only epitomised the energy and force that Ebony brought anytime she mounted a stage to uplift the spirits of the down hearted.<\/p>\n<p>Affectionately called \u2018Ohemaa\u2019 by most of her friends and relatives, she never disappointed them, and especially her fans, with her traits of a \u201890s badgyal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely would see you a galaxy of stars from the creative arts industry, government, the pulpit and the media and elsewhere, gather under one umbrella; as if it was Ghana\u2019s version of the Grammy awards.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, both individually and collectively, they dimmed like the moon, thus only reflecting the shine of the sun that Ebony brought in her strides.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/wgejWaD3-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the crowd who were  already in a state of ecstasy,  tried to reach out to them, as they proceeded into  the St Martin De Porres School Park,  but that in no way cause a deviation  from the  purpose of the gathering .<\/p>\n<p>With solemn and empathic messages from close friends and loved ones, the mourners, at least served, some dishes of relief to Ebony\u2019s parents and siblings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31inuQxzUAs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not alone,\u201d they seemed to assure them on and on!<\/p>\n<p>Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng, popularly known in showbiz as Ebony Reigns, met her untimely and gruesome death, with two others, in a road accident on Thursday, February 8, at Nyamebekyere in the Ahafo Ano South District.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A7Z3sqM3jJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her departure is certainly a premature one, but one thing is for sure &#8211; whoever gave her that name \u201cReigns\u201d should be proud that Nana Hemaa is still the Queen, for she\u2019ll reign majestically in the hearts of her myriad of subjects eternally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAwO-11Lm2Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 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>General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2018-02-20 Dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns died in a gory accident She might have reigned in her music career for a brief period but the love shown her by Ghanaians on Sunday at the one-week observation of her passing speaks volumes of one sure thing, \u201cEbony still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465802","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\/465802","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=465802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}