{"id":1100077,"date":"2022-05-26T12:10:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/gyakie-earns-nomination-at-nigerias-2022-headies-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:10:19","slug":"gyakie-earns-nomination-at-nigerias-2022-headies-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/gyakie-earns-nomination-at-nigerias-2022-headies-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyakie Earns Nomination At Nigeria\u2019s 2022 Headies Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Gyakie\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s sensational female afrobeat singer, Jackline Acheampong, also known as Gyakie, has earned nomination in Nigeria\u2019s major music awards show of the year, the\u00a0<strong>Headies Awards.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Headies Awards is Nigeria\u2019s biggest most anticipated music awards show. The awards show is scheduled for Sunday, September 4, 2022, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Gyakie, who is noted for her hit songs like \u2018Forever\u2019, \u2018Joy and Happiness (Intro)\u2019, \u2018Whine\u2019, \u2018Vacation \u2019, \u2018The Journey\u2019, among others, was nominated in the Best West African Artiste of the Year Award category alongside KiDi and\u00a0<strong>Amaarae<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The awards scheme stated that the category is for artistes of West African descent with the most outstanding achievements and impact across Africa in the year under review.<\/p>\n<p>The success of her viral hit song, \u2018Forever\u2019, from her \u2018Seed\u2019 EP, became one of the first Ghanaian songs (in a long while) to break into Nigerian music charts without a Naija feature.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, the \u2018Forever\u2019 song was her claim to fame, enjoying airplay and leading charts in\u00a0Ghana,\u00a0Kenya\u00a0and\u00a0Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>It topped music charts such\u00a0as Billboard\u2019s\u00a0Top Triller Global and Shazam\u2019s Top 200 Charts.\u00a0Gyakie released a\u00a0remix\u00a0of \u2018Forever\u2019 with Nigerian singer, Omah Lay, in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrated Nigerian artistes, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, Portable, and Tiwa Savage have also been nominated for the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY George Clifford Owusu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gyakie\u00a0 Ghana\u2019s sensational female afrobeat singer, Jackline Acheampong, also known as Gyakie, has earned nomination in Nigeria\u2019s major music awards show of the year, the\u00a0Headies Awards.\u00a0 The Headies Awards is Nigeria\u2019s biggest most anticipated music awards show. The awards show is scheduled for Sunday, September 4, 2022, at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[365,6133,10921,14800,1390,12745],"class_list":{"0":"post-1100077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-earns","10":"tag-gyakie","11":"tag-headies","12":"tag-nigerias","13":"tag-nomination"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}