{"id":756671,"date":"2019-12-02T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/02\/video-starr-fms-cookie-tee-compels-american-dj-to-play-ghanaian-songs-in-mall\/"},"modified":"2019-12-02T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:24:17","slug":"video-starr-fms-cookie-tee-compels-american-dj-to-play-ghanaian-songs-in-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/02\/video-starr-fms-cookie-tee-compels-american-dj-to-play-ghanaian-songs-in-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Starr FM\u2019s Cookie Tee compels American DJ to play Ghanaian songs in mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cookie-696x928.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"cookie\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Cookie Tee, Co-host of the Starr Drive on Starr 103.5 FM and host of Tales from the Powder room on GHOne Tv over the weekend compelled a US-based DJ to play Ghanaian songs at the Macy\u2019s mall in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cookie who is on break from work in the States had visited the Macy\u2019s to shop and noticed the DJ on the turntables had some Nigerian songs on rotation. She approached the DJ and requested he played a couple of Ghanaian songs.<\/p>\n<p>The DJ who seemed lost with Ghanaian songs had to rely on Cookie to get her names of some Ghanaian artists which she obliged by naming dancehall maestro Stonebwoy and BET award nominee Kwesi Arthur<\/p>\n<p>The whole encounter was captured in a video recorded and shared by Cookie on her official instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Arthur\u2019s Anthem eventually had its rotation as patrons at the mall danced to it.<\/p>\n<p>This goes back to the numerous questions if Ghanaian music is really doing well in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B5k235Al3hq\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\">For my country and for my continent!!! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Anyway someone tell @kwesiarthur_ to come and see somtin. I lost the other part of the video but the number of people who walked up to me to ask about the artiste and where I\u2019m from was incredible!!!\u00a0<time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2019-12-02T16:00:13+00:00\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Ghana\/Starrfm.com.gh\/103.5FM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n\/* custom css *\/\n.td_uid_2_5de57f7158f59_rand.td-a-rec-img {\n\t\t\t\t    text-align: left;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t.td_uid_2_5de57f7158f59_rand.td-a-rec-img img {\n                    margin: 0 auto 0 0;\n                }\n]]><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1';\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cookie Tee, Co-host of the Starr Drive on Starr 103.5 FM and host of Tales from the Powder room on GHOne Tv over the weekend compelled a US-based DJ to play Ghanaian songs at the Macy\u2019s mall in New York. Cookie who is on break from work in the States had visited the Macy\u2019s to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video: Starr FM\u2019s Cookie Tee compels American DJ to play Ghanaian songs in mall - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/02\/video-starr-fms-cookie-tee-compels-american-dj-to-play-ghanaian-songs-in-mall\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Video: Starr FM\u2019s Cookie Tee compels American DJ to play Ghanaian songs in mall - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Cookie Tee, Co-host of the Starr Drive on Starr 103.5 FM and host of Tales from the Powder room on GHOne Tv over the weekend compelled a US-based DJ to play Ghanaian songs at the Macy\u2019s mall in New York. 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