{"id":1199007,"date":"2022-09-05T18:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/gyakie-wins-best-west-african-artiste-at-nigerias-15th-headies-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T18:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:51:39","slug":"gyakie-wins-best-west-african-artiste-at-nigerias-15th-headies-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/05\/gyakie-wins-best-west-african-artiste-at-nigerias-15th-headies-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyakie wins Best West African Artiste at Nigeria\u2019s 15th Headies Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaian singer, Gyakie has won the award for Best West African Artiste at\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s Headies Awards.<\/p>\n<p>At the show, held on September 4 2022 at the COBB Energy Performing Arts Center in\u00a0Atlanta, USA, the \u201cForever\u201d hitmaker beat her category mates: KiDi(Ghana),\u00a0Amaarae(Ghana), Angelique Kidjo (Benin), Aya Nakamura (Mali) and Nelson Freitas(Cape Verde).<\/p>\n<p>Gyakie has been on a winning streak since the release of her debut project, SEED EP\u00a0and her growing impact on the music scene in Africa is subtle yet impressive. A few\u00a0weeks ago, The Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) presented a double Platinum\u00a0Certification Plaque to the singer for her breakthrough single \u201cForever\u201d meaning, over\u00a040,000 units of the single were sold in the South African Market.<\/p>\n<p>She recently released another project, My Diary EP which has songs such as, \u2018Something\u2019 and \u2018Flames\u2019 featuring Davido, which are making waves internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The Headies Awards is Nigeria\u2019s biggest and most anticipated music awards show and\u00a0the Best West African Artist category is for artists of West African descent with the most\u00a0outstanding achievements and impact across Africa.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian singer, Gyakie has won the award for Best West African Artiste at\u00a0Nigeria\u2019s Headies Awards. At the show, held on September 4 2022 at the COBB Energy Performing Arts Center in\u00a0Atlanta, USA, the \u201cForever\u201d hitmaker beat her category mates: KiDi(Ghana),\u00a0Amaarae(Ghana), Angelique Kidjo (Benin), Aya Nakamura (Mali) and Nelson Freitas(Cape Verde). Gyakie has been on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17666,461,151,365,10921,14800,1390,916,1000],"class_list":["post-1199007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-15th","tag-african","tag-artiste","tag-awards","tag-gyakie","tag-headies","tag-nigerias","tag-west","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199007","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=1199007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}