{"id":20265,"date":"2018-03-07T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=20265"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:02:09","slug":"gurunkz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/gurunkz\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget VGMAs And Focus On International Awards &#8211; Guru Advises Colleague Artistes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper\/hiplife artiste, Guru is undoubtedly one of the talented artistes in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s known for his consistency in releasing hit after hit songs. Most of his songs receive massive airplays and are loved by many music lovers. Aside that, Guru has been topping music charts over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Guru, who now goes by the stage name Gurunkz has not been fortunate with the VGMAs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his hardworks and good musical contents, he can\u2019t boast of at least three plaques by Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>No, he&#8217;s not on any blacklist and this keeps baffling many Ghanaians and his fans.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gurunkz seems unperturbed about this this bitter experience. It seems he has tuned his mind off from participating or winning any awards at the VGMAs because this year&#8217;s is no exception.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.1.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gurunkz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His name is missing from the entire nomination list. Whilst other colleagues of his who are experiencing the same crisis are voicing their worries, Gurunkz has his focus somewhere greater.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he has advised his colleague musicians who feel cheated in the hands of Charterhouse not to focus on the unfortunate happenings in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, artistes should rather focus on representing Ghana globally and not only on winning local awards. Guru made this known through his page on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote; <em>\u201cSorry y\u2019all for what\u2019s going on in Ghana music. Let\u2019s not focus on only Winning awards here but repping our mother Ghana Globally Love and peace guide y\u2019all\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charter House, organizers of the annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards announced nominees for the various categories of the awards scheme for this year. Afterwards, artistes who could not find their names in the various categories have voiced their displeasure on Charterhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as of March 5,2018, Gurunkz was number three on the music top chart by Heredeypap.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/Guru-Chart.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His latest track, &#8216;Golden Stool&#8217; is making it big as most of his other tracks have done over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Gurunkz is hence focusing on promoting this track which features Rapper Edem and Shaker.<\/p>\n<h3>Enjoy Guru&#8217;s &#8216;Golden Stool&#8217; track below;<\/h3>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20265-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guru-Golden-Stool-ft.-Edem-x-Shaker-Prod.-by-Tom-Beatz.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guru-Golden-Stool-ft.-Edem-x-Shaker-Prod.-by-Tom-Beatz.mp3\">http:\/\/www.ghanamotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Guru-Golden-Stool-ft.-Edem-x-Shaker-Prod.-by-Tom-Beatz.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper\/hiplife artiste, Guru is undoubtedly one of the talented artistes in Ghana. He&#8217;s known for his consistency in releasing hit after hit songs. Most of his songs receive massive airplays and are loved by many music lovers. Aside that, Guru has been topping music charts over and over again. Yet, Guru, who now goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":20277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[5238],"class_list":["post-20265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-gurunkz-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20278,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20265\/revisions\/20278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}