{"id":469739,"date":"2018-03-04T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/shatta-wale-sarkodie-ebony-stonebwoy-joe-mettle-in-the-race-for-artiste-of-the-year-at-2018-vgmas\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:30:32","slug":"shatta-wale-sarkodie-ebony-stonebwoy-joe-mettle-in-the-race-for-artiste-of-the-year-at-2018-vgmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/shatta-wale-sarkodie-ebony-stonebwoy-joe-mettle-in-the-race-for-artiste-of-the-year-at-2018-vgmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale, Sarkodie, Ebony, Stonebwoy &#038; Joe Mettle in the race for Artiste of the Year at 2018 VGMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/44059136.295.jpg\" alt=\"Moninees Artisite Vgma18\" title=\"Moninees Artisite Vgma18\" width=\"295\" height=\"145\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nominees for Artiste of the Year<\/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=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520202632_181_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> We\u2019ve finally seen the full list of nominees for the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards and this year\u2019s edition looks much more exciting because of the inclusion of the dancehall king, Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition sees 5 top musicians competing in the race for the artiste of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Musiga President, Obour when giving his speech disclosed that, this year\u2019s edition would see only 5 top musicians from last year make it to the artiste of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta Wale makes it into the list after being out for 3 years. The reigning artiste of the year, Joe Mettle who won last year as the first Gospel musician to ever win in that category makes a come back again in this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost like there can\u2019t be a VGMA without Sarkodie in the artiste of the year and he proves it again as he lands a spot in the top 5.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta\u2019s rival, Stonebwoy also makes it in the artiste of the year and it\u2019s going to be a really tough race.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have Ebony whom many industry persons started rooting for to be in that category and even subsequently go ahead and win but death\u2019s cold hands snatched her from us to live to see this day but death couldn\u2019t rob her of being nominated in the most prestigious music award in Ghana.<\/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>Nominees for Artiste of the Year We\u2019ve finally seen the full list of nominees for the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards and this year\u2019s edition looks much more exciting because of the inclusion of the dancehall king, Shatta Wale. This year\u2019s edition sees 5 top musicians competing in the race for the artiste of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":469740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469739","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\/469739","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=469739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}