{"id":1200558,"date":"2022-09-08T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/why-i-varnished-from-the-music-scene-after-winning-the-vgma-j-derobie\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T08:27:00","slug":"why-i-varnished-from-the-music-scene-after-winning-the-vgma-j-derobie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/why-i-varnished-from-the-music-scene-after-winning-the-vgma-j-derobie\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I varnished from the music scene after winning the VGMA \u2013 J.Derobie \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-award-winning-artist-derrick-oboubie-jr-known-in-the-music-space-as-j-derobie-has-disclosed-why-he-went-off-the-music-scene-after-winning-the-vodafone-ghana-music-award-in-2020\">Award winning-artist Derrick Oboubie Jr. known in the music space as J. Derobie has disclosed why he went off the music scene after winning the Vodafone Ghana  Award in 2020.<\/h2>\n<p>J. Derobie\u2019s breakthrough song titled \u2018Poverty\u2019 was announced as the winner for Reggae Dancehall Song of the year during the VGMA 2020 awards; where he beat artists Epixode, Jupitar, and Ras Kuuku among others. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: I\u2019m not happy with the kind of players Chelsea FC bought- Opanka<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"1010\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280229\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4ea22f99-j.derobie-pam-2-copie-1010x1347-1.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" width=\"1010\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4ea22f99-j.derobie-pam-2-copie-1010x1347-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280229\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview on Kastle FM with Amansankye, the artist disclosed that he went low-key after taking the award from VGAM for a number of reasons. \u201cI didn\u2019t leave the scene after winning the VGMA Reggae Dancehall Song of the year in 2020 but I was on low key for some time,\u201d he told the host. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: 5 Chinese arrested in connection with missing excavators in Ellembelle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He added on Cape Coast-based Kastle FM \u201cI was engaged somewhere in doing one or two things that is some further studies and more recordings and others so that\u2019s what kept me behind a bit.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now I\u2019m back and I have brought Ato Me So besides there are more things in the pipeline that I\u2019m about to unleash,\u201d he assured his fans on the Kastle Drive Show.<\/p>\n<p>J. Derobie has now released his new song titled \u201cAto me so\u201d through his new management team emPawa Africa, a record label owned by Nigerian musician, Mr. Eazi.<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Award winning-artist Derrick Oboubie Jr. known in the music space as J. Derobie has disclosed why he went off the music scene after winning the Vodafone Ghana Award in 2020. J. Derobie\u2019s breakthrough song titled \u2018Poverty\u2019 was announced as the winner for Reggae Dancehall Song of the year during the VGMA 2020 awards; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25397,1484,7881,25398,6722,882],"class_list":["post-1200558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-j-derobie","tag-music","tag-scene","tag-varnished","tag-vgma","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200558","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=1200558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}