{"id":468459,"date":"2018-02-28T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/i-have-been-tempted-to-do-secular-music-joe-mettle\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:00:29","slug":"i-have-been-tempted-to-do-secular-music-joe-mettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/i-have-been-tempted-to-do-secular-music-joe-mettle\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been tempted to do secular music \u2013 Joe Mettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Wednesday, 28 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-28<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/27888470.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Mettle Worship\" title=\"Joe Mettle Worship\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Gospel musician, Joe Mettle<\/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\/1519830029_184_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The 2017 VGMA artiste of the year Joe Mettle has confessed to being tempted to do secular or commercial music in order to appeal to his fans.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u2018Bo Noo Ni\u2019 hit maker, even though he is a Christian, he is sometimes \u201ccarried away like everyone else\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are human, there are times you may miss your way once or twice, and I have. Where I realize that I\u2019m missing my track and then I had to come back. There are times you get carried away like everybody else. And those are the times you get heavy offers. But those are things you cannot decide on without praying about them,\u201d he told Starr Drive co-host Berla Mundi Tuesday when she asked if he had ever been tempted to do secular music.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Oscar Mettle also revealed that his latest track \u2018Bo Noo Ni\u2019 was written and composed before he was crowned artiste of the year at the VGMAs.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that he resisted temptations to change some of the lyrics  on the album after he won the VGMA crown.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first gospel artiste to win the coveted award which has often been picked by secular musicians.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 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>Entertainment of Wednesday, 28 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-28 Gospel musician, Joe Mettle The 2017 VGMA artiste of the year Joe Mettle has confessed to being tempted to do secular or commercial music in order to appeal to his fans. According to the \u2018Bo Noo Ni\u2019 hit maker, even though he is a Christian, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":442314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468459","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\/468459","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=468459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}