{"id":1148008,"date":"2022-07-13T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/highlife-legend-a-b-crentsil-is-dead-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:52:53","slug":"highlife-legend-a-b-crentsil-is-dead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/highlife-legend-a-b-crentsil-is-dead-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlife legend A.B. Crentsil is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-31074\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-13-at-8.26.57-AM-696x470.png\"   alt=\"A.B. Crentsil\" title=\"A.B. Crentsil\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> A.B. Crentsil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Confirmed information reaching us has it that popular legendary high life musician, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, popularly known as A.B. Crentsil has passed.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>He died at age 76.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there\u2019s little information about the true cause of his death but we\u2019ve been reliably informed that he died in the early hours of today after battling kidney inflammation for years.<\/p>\n<p>However, trust TheBBCghana.Com to bring you up-to-date news in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, AB Crentsil has over the years shown a lot of substance and received appreciation and admiration largely for his controversial lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>He has also won several Excellence Awards including the Fontomfrom Evergreen Award, which is a special honor bestowed upon a musician with 15-20 years of continuous music experience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31076\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-13-at-8.13.05-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"553\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RIP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Source:TheBBCghana.Com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>VIDEO: Gospel musician Ohemaa Mercy\u2019s son who has dyed his hair raise eyebrows<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kofi Anokye, PhD\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-07-13T08:27:16+00:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-07-13T08:27:16+00:00\"\/><meta itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/highlife-legend-a-b-crentsil-is-dead\/\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEW-BBC-e1587657736248.png\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"BBC Ghana Reports\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline \" content=\"Highlife legend A.B. 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So far, there\u2019s little information about the true cause of his death but we\u2019ve been reliably informed that he died in the early hours of today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20336,20337,303,14553,1483],"class_list":["post-1148008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-b","tag-crentsil","tag-dead","tag-highlife","tag-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148008","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=1148008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}