{"id":1249821,"date":"2022-11-13T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/13\/ghana-not-just-about-accra-abbi-ima\/"},"modified":"2022-11-13T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:26:21","slug":"ghana-not-just-about-accra-abbi-ima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/13\/ghana-not-just-about-accra-abbi-ima\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana  Not Just About Accra &#8211; Abbi Ima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"871\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1668348935126.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1668348935126\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abbi Ima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>KINTAMPO-based artiste Abbi Imma is encouraging music audience to extend their support to artistes from other regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668349580_908_1_1662620290642.png\"  class=\" jetpack-lazy-image\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-fallback=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668349581_149_1_1662620290642.png\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>This is because many talented artistes in other regions have been left to their fate and continue to enjoy very little attention since Accra has \u201chijacked\u201d the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t move to Accra to promote your music or make yourself popular, no one knows about you and your music and that is not how we should run our music industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I\u2019m huge in Kintampo while Fancy Gadam and Macassio are also huge in the North but how many people know about our songs outside our region. Industry players, event organisers should include us too in their dealings\u201d, she told Graphic .<\/p>\n<p>Abbi Imma, whose real name is Abigail Ayizam explained that it is always difficult for artistes from other regions to penetrate despite how huge they are simply because they are not based in Accra and that is stressful for such acts who are working so hard.<\/p>\n<p>Away from that, Abbi Ima who has songs like Fakers, Give Me Love, Bronya, Only You, African Girl among others is promoting her latest song, Give Me Love featuring Fancy Gadam and Amerado<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, she won Artiste of the Year at Kintampo  Awards.<\/p>\n<p>In the same year, she won the Most Influential  Performer by Best House Entertainment Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Through her hard work, she was nominated in the Emerging Woman category at the 2O22 3Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>2022 came with big surprises as she got the nod in the Discovery Artiste of year categories at Ghana  Awards-USA and Ghana  Awards-France.<\/p>\n<p>Her song Give Me Love won the Best Collaborations of the Year at the just ended Emerging  Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Abbi Imma is gearing up to organise second edition of her Live Band Experience2022 in few weeks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668349580_908_1_1662620290642.png\"  class=\" jetpack-lazy-image\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-fallback=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1668349581_149_1_1662620290642.png\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 3 -->\n        <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbi Ima KINTAMPO-based artiste Abbi Imma is encouraging music audience to extend their support to artistes from other regions. This is because many talented artistes in other regions have been left to their fate and continue to enjoy very little attention since Accra has \u201chijacked\u201d the industry. \u201cIf you don\u2019t move to Accra to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28291,813,85,28292],"class_list":["post-1249821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abbi","tag-accra","tag-ghana","tag-ima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249821","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=1249821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}