{"id":1212771,"date":"2022-09-28T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/zahara-to-rock-7th-emy-africa-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:23:26","slug":"zahara-to-rock-7th-emy-africa-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/zahara-to-rock-7th-emy-africa-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Zahara To Rock 7th EMY Africa Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zahara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sensational South African Songstress Zahara is set to rock the 7th Exclusive Men of the Year (EMY) award with live performances on Saturday, October 1, at the Grand Arena, Accra international conference center, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizer, Zahara, whose music has been classified loosely as \u2018Afro-soul\u2019, will thrill participants at the Awards with her captivating songs, in her native Xhosa language, and English.<\/p>\n<p>Her music has been described as a mixture of styles popularized by Tracy Chapman and India Arie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Zahara will perform songs from her album including her three chart-topping singles \u201cPhendula\u201d, \u201cImpilo\u201d, and \u201cStay,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>With 17 South African  Awards accolades, the singer is also a recipient of three Metro FM Awards, and one Nigeria Entertainment Award. Zahara was on the 2020 list of the BBC\u2019s 100 Women.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Zahara\u2019s participation in the awards, EMY Africa CEO, Kojo Soboh said, \u201cClearly, she\u2019s a class act and this is a musician who gels with EMY\u2019s niche audience and the atmosphere we want to create at the final ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Her musical enthusiasm, drive, and versatility fit into the need of our guests.\u201d She will be sharing the stage with some of Ghana\u2019s celebrated crooners \u2013 Kwabena Kwabena and Akwaboah, as well as a charismatic gospel singer \u2013\u00a0 Efe Grace. It, promises to be a beautiful event \u201c he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zahara released her debut album Loliwe (2011), which went double platinum, and her second album, Phendula (2013). The songstress\u2019 third album, Country Girl (2015), was certified triple platinum while her fourth album, Mgodi (2017), was her best-selling album and was certified platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Her fifth album, Nqaba Yam (2021), peaked at number 1 on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is in partnership with the Diaspora affairs\u2019 office of the president of Ghana, GIPC, Joy Entertainment, Labadi Beach Hotel, Rhythms Africa, and DSTV-Akwaaba Magic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Prince Fiifi Yorke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Zahara Sensational South African Songstress Zahara is set to rock the 7th Exclusive Men of the Year (EMY) award with live performances on Saturday, October 1, at the Grand Arena, Accra international conference center, Accra. According to the organizer, Zahara, whose music has been classified loosely as \u2018Afro-soul\u2019, will thrill participants at the Awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9853,671,365,8441,687,26530],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-7th","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-awards","11":"tag-emy","12":"tag-rock","13":"tag-zahara"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212771","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=1212771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212771\/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=1212771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}