{"id":1265568,"date":"2022-12-15T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/i-begged-to-perform-at-shows-in-2021-iyanya\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T14:43:54","slug":"i-begged-to-perform-at-shows-in-2021-iyanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/i-begged-to-perform-at-shows-in-2021-iyanya\/","title":{"rendered":"I begged to perform at shows in 2021 \u2013 Iyanya\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iyanya-1-780x470-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Afropop singer,\u00a0Iyanya\u00a0has revealed that in December 2021, he had to beg to perform at events.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter, the singer says that last year was not a favourable year for him, adding that he had only had one paid show to perform at.<\/p>\n<p>Because he wanted to remain in the public eye, Iyanya noted that he begged to perform at some shows. The \u2018Kukere\u2019 hitmaker said he was given the opportunity to offer his services at two shows for free.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Iyanya says the narrative has completely changed for him. He has been booked for more than 20 shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wake up every day to alerts for shows, haven\u2019t had this kind of busy December since 2017. 20+ shows in one month. God Thank you,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked fans who have stuck with him through everything and streamed his music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod 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 Iyanya added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And to my fans and everyone who streamed my music this year, God Bless you.<br \/>There\u2019s got to be more and I promise 2023 will be a better year for everyone who has supported me this year.<br \/>We will definitely have a great 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 its iyanyaaaaaa\ud83d\udca5 (@Iyanya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iyanya\/status\/1602954582564691968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afropop singer,\u00a0Iyanya\u00a0has revealed that in December 2021, he had to beg to perform at events. In a post on Twitter, the singer says that last year was not a favourable year for him, adding that he had only had one paid show to perform at. Because he wanted to remain in the public eye, Iyanya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9007,29801,2481,962],"class_list":["post-1265568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-begged","tag-iyanya","tag-perform","tag-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265568","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=1265568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}