{"id":1102569,"date":"2022-05-28T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/28\/i-was-a-galamsey-operator-for-6-years-veteran-gospel-singer-great-ampong\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:51:40","slug":"i-was-a-galamsey-operator-for-6-years-veteran-gospel-singer-great-ampong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/28\/i-was-a-galamsey-operator-for-6-years-veteran-gospel-singer-great-ampong\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was A &#8216;Galamsey&#8217; Operator For 6 Years \u2014 Veteran Gospel Singer, Great Ampong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-veteran-singer-great-ampong-whose-real-name-is-isaiah-kwadwo-ampong-has-said-before-he-came-a-household-name-as-a-gospel-singer-he-was-engaged-in-illegal-mining\">Veteran singer Great Ampong- whose real name is\u00a0\u00a0Isaiah Kwadwo Ampong has said before he came a household name as a gospel singer, he was engaged in illegal mining.\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>According to him, difficulties as a young man growing up in Tarkwa, a mining community in Ghana led him to take part in the illegal mining activity, popularly known as \u2018galamsey\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning artist and serial hitmaker said he was doing galamsey for 6-years until he relocated to Accra to search for greener pastures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked at a Galamsey site for about 6 years, I slept in a kiosk for 6 years and I later relocated to Accra where I lived in a church auditorium and slept on the pulpit for about 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to tell the youth not to be greedy but they should be prayerful and rely on God\u2019s time,\u201d he stated in an interview on Accra-based station, Kingdom FM.<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed how he sold biscuits at Kaneshie First Light when he first arrived in Accra.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"I0Sj8eEldCo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Did Galamsey For 6 Years- Great Ampong Reveals\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0Sj8eEldCo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE: <strong>www.Ghgossip.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"dff6770b7d7baae54b88e796-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran singer Great Ampong- whose real name is\u00a0\u00a0Isaiah Kwadwo Ampong has said before he came a household name as a gospel singer, he was engaged in illegal mining.\u00a0 According to him, difficulties as a young man growing up in Tarkwa, a mining community in Ghana led him to take part in the illegal mining activity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15309,12861,3081,2917,3045,741,306,1151],"class_list":["post-1102569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ampong","tag-galamsey","tag-gospel","tag-great","tag-operator","tag-singer","tag-veteran","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102569","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=1102569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}