{"id":22629,"date":"2018-03-15T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=22629"},"modified":"2018-03-15T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:28:11","slug":"joe-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/joe-m\/","title":{"rendered":"I Used To Sell ‘Waakye Leaves’ To Support My Family – Joe Mettle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-wining Gospel Musician, Joe Mettle has revealed that he was hawking at a tender age to support his family due to the financial challenges.<\/p>\n

According to the “Bo Noo Ni” hitmaker, he started selling at age 16 in order to survive.<\/p>\n

The reigning Ghana Music Awards ‘Artiste of the Year’, made this revelation on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm.<\/p>\n

Joe Mettle said he was selling \u2018waakye leaves\u2019 which was the major business of her mother.<\/p>\n

However, the business collapsed due to the influx of plastic bags and take-away packs. \u2018\u2019I sell before going to school. When I am in the afternoon shift, I sell in the morning. When I am in the morning shift, I sell after school but due to the nature of the job, I wake up very early in the morning to go and sell.<\/em>\u2019\u2019 He recounted on the mid-morning show with host Sokoohemaa Kukua.<\/p>\n

According to him, he understood the situation at the time and sacrificed for the family.<\/p>\n

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Joe Mettle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Background<\/h3>\n

Joe Mettle, born Joseph Oscar Mettle began his musical journey as a backing vocalist for some great Ghanaian Gospel musicians. Some of them include; Cindy Thompson, late Danny Nettey, and Reverend Tom Bright Davies.<\/p>\n

He was the lead singer for the indigenous multicultural music group, Soul Winners.<\/p>\n

He has won several awards at Africa Gospel Music Awards, Gospel industry Awards, African Gospel Awards (UK), CCML Ghana Gospel Awards, Bass Awards and RIGA Awards (South Africa). Joe Mettle is a graduate from the Pentecost University where he studied marketing.<\/p>\n

He is the first Gospel musician in Ghana to win the most enviable VGMAs Artiste of The Year Awards in 2017.<\/p>\n

Joe is currently competing again for the ‘Artiste Of The Year’\u00a0 at the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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