{"id":1194596,"date":"2022-08-30T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/my-aim-as-a-gospel-artiste-is-not-about-soul-winning-but-to-make-money-joyce-blessing\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:37:26","slug":"my-aim-as-a-gospel-artiste-is-not-about-soul-winning-but-to-make-money-joyce-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/30\/my-aim-as-a-gospel-artiste-is-not-about-soul-winning-but-to-make-money-joyce-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"My aim as a gospel artiste is not about soul winning but to make money \u2013 Joyce Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"435\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-30-at-10.26.10-AM.png\"   alt=\"Joyce Blessing\" title=\"Joyce Blessing\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Blessing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The truth is, comparing and contrasting the works of Esther Nyamekye, Getty &#038; Friends, Mama Esther, Tagoe Sisters, Helena Rhabbles, et al. to the songs produced by our current crop of musicians who call themselves gospel musicians will make you shed uncontrollable tears.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the works of Getty &#038; Friends, Helena Rhabbles, others will make every believer suffer from goosebumps but these days, the songs produced as gospel songs are nothing but empty \u2013 it carries no inspiration and religious weight.<\/p>\n<p>Gospel artists Joyce Blessing has said that she sees herself primarily as a businesswoman, despite her involvement in spreading God\u2019s message via her music.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Joyce Blessing is not a murderer \u2013 Celestine Donkor\u2019s husband comes to defend drunkard Joyce Blessing<\/p>\n<p>Joyce was asked this same question by Rainbow Radio presenter Togo Borga: \u201cAre you performing gospel music as a business, or simply spreading the message of God?\u201d The \u201cAgyebum\u201d singer responded with:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, my job is both a business and a ministry. It is a business straight but I minister the word of God through it. Gospel is a business!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gospel singer in question recently informed the people of Ghana that, for reasons known only to herself, she would not be including any gospel artists on her next album.<\/p>\n<p>Source: TheBBCghana.Com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Blessing The truth is, comparing and contrasting the works of Esther Nyamekye, Getty &#038; Friends, Mama Esther, Tagoe Sisters, Helena Rhabbles, et al. to the songs produced by our current crop of musicians who call themselves gospel musicians will make you shed uncontrollable tears. Listening to the works of Getty &#038; Friends, Helena Rhabbles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1778,151,2990,3081,7900,383,7994,882],"class_list":{"0":"post-1194596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aim","9":"tag-artiste","10":"tag-blessing","11":"tag-gospel","12":"tag-joyce","13":"tag-money","14":"tag-soul","15":"tag-winning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194596","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=1194596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194596\/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=1194596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}