{"id":1251782,"date":"2022-11-16T12:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/rocky-dawuni-secures-another-nomination-at-2022-grammy-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:31:21","slug":"rocky-dawuni-secures-another-nomination-at-2022-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/16\/rocky-dawuni-secures-another-nomination-at-2022-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Dawuni secures another nomination at 2022 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Rocky Dawuni. Credit: @flynimaboy \u2014 Twitter<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Ghanaian artiste, Rocky Dawuni, has received a nomination for the upcoming 65th Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a record-third nomination from the award scheme as far as the Ghanaian music scene is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of his song \u2018Never Bow Down\u2019 for the Best Global  Performance category comes after the musician was considered by the Grammys back in 2015 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The development was announced on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, by the Recording Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The reggae artiste says he is \u201chonored to be nominated.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am truly honored to be nominated for another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Grammy?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Grammy<\/a> award for my song \u201cNever Bow Down\u201d feat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLVKH3RO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BLVKH3RO<\/a> This is huge for Africa and the Carribean coming together on this global roots anthem! Thank you to everyone who was part of this and congrats to my fellow nominees. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FcsdMy6zYV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/FcsdMy6zYV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rocky Dawuni (@RockyDawuni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyDawuni\/status\/1592721562054295552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am truly honored to be nominated for another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Grammy?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Grammy<\/a> award for my song \u201cNever Bow Down\u201d feat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLVKH3RO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BLVKH3RO<\/a>. This is huge for Africa and the Carribean coming together on this global roots anthem! Thank you to everyone who was part of this and congrats to my fellow nominees,\u201d he posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The other songs gunning for the same award are Burna Boy\u2019s \u2018Last Last\u2019, \u2018Udhero Na\u2019, by Arooj Aftab and Anoushka Shankar, and \u2018Gimme Love\u2019, by Matt B and Eddy Kenzo, and \u2018Baythe\u2019 by Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini and Nomcebo Zikode.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Fho-bIfWIAA4Isq-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"Rocky Dawuni secures another nomination at 2022 Grammy Awards\" class=\"wp-image-10032209802 lazy\"  data- title=\"Rocky Dawuni secures another nomination at 2022 Grammy Awards\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The main event, however, comes off on Sunday, February 5, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rocky Dawuni\u2019s project \u2018Voice of Bunbon Vol. 1\u2019 secured a place in the Best Global  Album category after his \u2018Branches of The Same Tree\u2019 was nominated for Best Reggae Album in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/rocky-dawuni-secures-another-nomination-at-2022-grammy-awards\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Dawuni. Credit: @flynimaboy \u2014 Twitter Ghanaian artiste, Rocky Dawuni, has received a nomination for the upcoming 65th Grammy Awards. This will be a record-third nomination from the award scheme as far as the Ghanaian music scene is concerned. The selection of his song \u2018Never Bow Down\u2019 for the Best Global Performance category comes after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[365,19686,368,12745,7634,564],"class_list":["post-1251782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-awards","tag-dawuni","tag-grammy","tag-nomination","tag-rocky","tag-secures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251782","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=1251782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}