{"id":71062,"date":"2023-05-26T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/26\/people-asked-me-to-boycott-vgma-because-i-was-not-winning-any-award-king-promise\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:25:09","slug":"people-asked-me-to-boycott-vgma-because-i-was-not-winning-any-award-king-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/26\/people-asked-me-to-boycott-vgma-because-i-was-not-winning-any-award-king-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"People asked me to boycott VGMA because I was not winning any award -King Promise \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<p><strong>King Promise, a musician, claims that after being nominated for multiple accolades at the Vodafone Ghana  accolades (VGMA), he was encouraged to skip the ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He claimed in a TV3 interview that he had refused to leave the scheme despite advice to do so out of respect for his supporters and other music lovers.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:VGMA only focuses on artists in Accra and ignore the rest &amp;#8211; Wiyaala<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with the VGMAs there were times where I had advice from people who were like \u2018cancel it, don\u2019t go again\u2019. 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