{"id":20471,"date":"2018-03-08T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:16:45","slug":"richie-mensah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/richie-mensah\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale And Ebony Are The Strongest Contenders For The Artiste of The Year &#8211; Richie Mensah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chatterhouse, organizers of the biggest awards scheme in Ghana, the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards released the nominees for this year&#8217;s awards few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, many people, including entertainment pundit and other industry players have been analyzing and predicting the results.<\/p>\n<p>Many have also been vouching for their\u00a0 favorite artiste to win in the various categories they find themselves.<\/p>\n<h3>The biggest however is the &#8216;Artiste of The Year Awards.&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Contesting in this category are; Shatta Wale, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Ebony Reigns and Joe Mettle.<\/p>\n<p>Artiste Manager and Lynx Entertainment boss, Richie Mensah has also shared his views on which artiste to win.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Shatta Wale and Ebony are the only contenders for this year\u2019s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Artiste of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Richie made this revelation in a Q&amp;A session with his followers on Twitter where he indicated that; <em>\u201cEbony and Shatta Wale were the strongest last year so either of them is cool for me\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Richie also indicated that to work with him, all one needs is to be disciplined, talented and have a good image.<\/p>\n<p>Richie is credited for the rise of several talents including Kidi, MzVee, Kuami Eugene, Ziggi, Eazzy among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatterhouse, organizers of the biggest awards scheme in Ghana, the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards released the nominees for this year&#8217;s awards few days ago. 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