{"id":254321,"date":"2024-11-22T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/22\/why-rocky-dawuni-constantly-gets-nominations-at-the-grammys-appietus-explains\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:27:08","slug":"why-rocky-dawuni-constantly-gets-nominations-at-the-grammys-appietus-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/22\/why-rocky-dawuni-constantly-gets-nominations-at-the-grammys-appietus-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rocky Dawuni constantly gets nominations at the Grammys \u2013 Appietus explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/361\/36143195.295.jpg\" alt=\"Reggae musician Rocky Dawuni has received several Grammy Awards nominations\" title=\"Reggae musician Rocky Dawuni has received several Grammy Awards nominations\" width=\"295\" height=\"194\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Reggae musician Rocky Dawuni has received several Grammy Awards nominations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Legendary music producer, Appietus born Appiah Dankwah has disclosed that getting Grammy Awards nominations depends on having friends who can recommend your works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for the Grammys, it is an academy of peers who are friends and people who know each other, and they sit down and nominate their friends,\u201d he told Amansan Krakye as MyNewsGh.com monitored.<\/p>\n<p>According to the renowned sound engineer, Rocky Dawuni has been nominated constantly because he\u2019s got peers inducted among the academy members.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cBasically, that\u2019s what it is, so if you\u2019re not part of the academy or you don\u2019t have friends there, you can\u2019t be nominated because you\u2019ve to be inducted into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can only bring your works when you\u2019re inducted, and two people can recommend your works by justifying your impact from your continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have anybody who will take your work there, you\u2019ll never be nominated, so seeing Rocky Dawuni there means someone has been nominating him constantly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggae musician Rocky Dawuni has received several Grammy Awards nominations Legendary music producer, Appietus born Appiah Dankwah has disclosed that getting Grammy Awards nominations depends on having friends who can recommend your works. \u201cAs for the Grammys, it is an academy of peers who are friends and people who know each other, and they sit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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