{"id":64763,"date":"2023-05-07T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-is-the-artiste-of-the-year-at-the-2023-vgma\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T18:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:50:48","slug":"black-sherif-is-the-artiste-of-the-year-at-the-2023-vgma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-is-the-artiste-of-the-year-at-the-2023-vgma\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif is the Artiste of the Year at the 2023 VGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Black-Sherif-US--696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Black-Sherif-US-\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The 2023 Vodafone Ghana  Awards Artiste of the Year is rap sensation Black Sherif.<\/p>\n<p>He beat stiff competition from seven others namely Piesie Esther, Sarkodie, Joe Mettle, Stonebwoy, Camidoh, KiDi and King Promise to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>This is the \u2018Kwaku The Traveller\u2019 hitmaker\u2019s first VGMA Artiste of the Year win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>@theculturejointSending love to my Rastas indeed. It paid off. Ghana\u2019s Artiste if the Year is Black Sherif\u00a0#VGMA\u266c original sound \u2013 theculturejoint<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Black Sherif also took home awards for the Best  Video Award, Most Popular Song of the Year and Best Hip-hop Song of the Year with Kwaku The Traveller.<\/p>\n<p>An excited Black Sherif, following his win, walked to the stage singing Sad Boys Don\u2019t Fold \u2013 the song he opened his performance with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He thanked everyone that supported him throughout his career stating \u201cI dedicate this award to my mother, father and to Konongo Zongo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later sang the lyrics to Sad Boys Don\u2019t Fold as a goodbye \u2013 \u201csending love to my rastas\u2026We\u2019ll be great \u2018nti moda a monda\u2019 (if you sleep, sleep well).<\/p>\n<p>Black Sherif assured his fans to expect his new work in July<\/p>\n<p>One of the big contenders of the night Piesie Esther walked home with two awards namely Best Gospel Song with Waye Me Yie and the Best Gospel Artiste of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Stonebwoy also won the Best Reggae\/Dancehall Artiste of the Year Award and Best Afropop Song of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, King Promise, to many fans\u2019 delight, won the Best Afrobeats\/Afropop Artiste of the Year and Album of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie took home the Best Collaboration and Best Hiplife Artiste awards.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Vodafone Ghana Awards Artiste of the Year is rap sensation Black Sherif. 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This is the \u2018Kwaku The Traveller\u2019 hitmaker\u2019s first VGMA Artiste of the Year win. @theculturejointSending love to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Sherif is the Artiste of the Year at the 2023 VGMA - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-is-the-artiste-of-the-year-at-the-2023-vgma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Sherif is the Artiste of the Year at the 2023 VGMA - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2023 Vodafone Ghana Awards Artiste of the Year is rap sensation Black Sherif. 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