{"id":1148026,"date":"2022-07-13T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/sad-news-highlife-legend-ab-crentsil-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:20:02","slug":"sad-news-highlife-legend-ab-crentsil-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/13\/sad-news-highlife-legend-ab-crentsil-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad News: Highlife Legend, AB Crentsil Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>A very sad news has hit the entertainment industry this morning as one of Ghana\u2019s renowned and veteran musician has been pronounced dead. <span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Some heartbreaking news coming in this morning suggests that Highlife music legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, popularly known as A.B. Crentsil\u00a0is dead. This news was announced on the internet by a close relative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/88d88e088a714139960a9e279cc7f7c5\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(59, 59, 59);\">He reportedly died on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, and at the time of this report, details of his death were not available, but my team and I will do all that it takes to update you on this. The veteran was well known in the entertainment and music industry as one of the best when it comes to highlife music in Ghana. His demise has made many people on the internet sad and shocked at the same time.The sad news was also been announced by Peace Fm on their page. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(59, 59, 59);\"><span class=\"ql-cursor\">\ufeff<\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c77f379ed40141738137ea37e742659b\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(59, 59, 59);\">AB Crentsil left a very good legacy in Ghanaian music with his talents and choice of songs that melts Ghanaians hearts. Throughout his career, he has won numerous Ghanaian music awards,  the Fontomfrom Evergreen Award, a special honor bestowed upon a musician with 15\u201320 years of continuous music experience<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Whistler (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nA.B. Crentsil<br \/>\nAB Crentsil<br \/>\nAlfred Benjamin Crentsil<br \/>\nHighlife<br \/>\nSad News<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very sad news has hit the entertainment industry this morning as one of Ghana\u2019s renowned and veteran musician has been pronounced dead. Some heartbreaking news coming in this morning suggests that Highlife music legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, popularly known as A.B. Crentsil\u00a0is dead. This news was announced on the internet by a close relative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20337,303,14553,1483,86,5885],"class_list":["post-1148026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-crentsil","tag-dead","tag-highlife","tag-legend","tag-news","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148026","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=1148026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}