{"id":1198739,"date":"2022-09-05T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/gyakie-beats-angelique-kidjo-others-to-wins-best-west-african-artiste-of-the-year-starr-fm\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:41:45","slug":"gyakie-beats-angelique-kidjo-others-to-wins-best-west-african-artiste-of-the-year-starr-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/gyakie-beats-angelique-kidjo-others-to-wins-best-west-african-artiste-of-the-year-starr-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyakie beats Angelique Kidjo, others to wins &#8216;Best West African Artiste of the Year&#8217; \u2014 Starr Fm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s songbird, Gyakie has been named the \u2018Best West African Artiste of the Year\u201d at this year\u2019s Headies Award.<\/p>\n<p>The awards show which was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA had Burna Boy win as African artiste of the year and best male artiste.<\/p>\n<p>Many renowned musicians were awarded and when it came to the Best West African Artiste of the Year, it was Gyakie who was adjudged the winner.<\/p>\n<p>She was in the same category with AMAARAE, ANGELIQUE KIDJO, AYA NAKAMURA, KIDI, and NELSON FREITAS to win the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Gyakie released her first single titled; \u201cLove is Pretty\u201d which paved way for another single, \u201cNever Like This.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, the \u201cForever\u201d song from her five-track EP, titled \u201cSeed\u201d was her claim to fame enjoying airplay and leading charts in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Gyakie\u2019s father is Nana Acheampong.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the songs she has released so far include Love is Pretty, Never Like This, Sor Mi Mu feat Bisa Kdei, Forever Remix feat Omah Lay, Vacation, Whine, Follow You Fiokee, Chike &#038; Gyakie, and Something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/09\/gyakie-beats-angelique-kidjo-others-to-wins-best-west-african-artiste-of-the-year\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s songbird, Gyakie has been named the \u2018Best West African Artiste of the Year\u201d at this year\u2019s Headies Award. The awards show which was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA had Burna Boy win as African artiste of the year and best male artiste. Many renowned musicians were awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1198740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[461,25208,151,1518,10921,25209,357,916,1000,293],"class_list":["post-1198739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-african","tag-angelique","tag-artiste","tag-beats","tag-gyakie","tag-kidjo","tag-starr","tag-west","tag-wins","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198739","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=1198739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}