{"id":1265505,"date":"2022-12-15T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/last-year-i-begged-to-perform-at-show-iyanya\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:32:55","slug":"last-year-i-begged-to-perform-at-show-iyanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/last-year-i-begged-to-perform-at-show-iyanya\/","title":{"rendered":"Last year I begged to perform at show \u2013 Iyanya \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<h3><strong>The Nigerian afrobeat artist Iyanya said that he had begged event planners for free appearances at two shows last year.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The artist made the announcement on his Instagram and expressed gratitude to God.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, he says he performed on three programs but was only compensated for one of them despite his repeated requests to do so in order to get more publicity.<\/p>\n<p>He stated:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year December 2021, i performed at 3 shows, one paid and | begged to perform at 2 just to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>2022 December, I wake up and everyday to alerts for shows, haven\u2019t had this kind of busy december since 2017. 20+ shows in on month. God Thank you \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to my fans and everyone who streamed my music this year, God Bless you. There\u2019s got to be more and I promise 2023 will be a better year for everyone who has supported me this year. We will definitely have a great 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302271\" style=\"width: 684px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302271\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"579\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-15-at-7.28.00-AM.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-302271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-15-at-7.28.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"579\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year I begged to perform at show \u2013 Iyanya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The Nigerian afrobeat artist Iyanya said that he had begged event planners for free appearances at two shows last year. The artist made the announcement on his Instagram and expressed gratitude to God. In December 2021, he says he performed on three programs but was only compensated for one of them despite his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9007,29801,2481,2210,293],"class_list":["post-1265505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-begged","tag-iyanya","tag-perform","tag-show","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265505","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=1265505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}