{"id":53778,"date":"2018-09-27T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=53778"},"modified":"2018-09-26T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T21:08:57","slug":"46565-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/46565-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Kooko Won Artiste Of The Year Not Joyce Blessing &#8211; BAMA Organizers Shoot Down False Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maiden edition of the award came off\u00a0at the Tyco City Hotel Auditorium in<\/p>\n<p>Sunyani on Friday, September 21, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It was however highly publicized that Joyce Blessing won the Artiste of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0J Black Code Events, organizers for the prestigious\u00a0Brong Ahafo Music Awards<\/p>\n<p>have\u00a0shot down false such reports.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a press release, the Media and Communications Manager for J Black Code Events, Seth<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, revealed that Joyce Blessing rather won BAMA Gospel Artiste of the Year,<\/p>\n<p>BAMA Album of the Year and BAMA Songwriter of the Year.<\/p>\n<h3>Read The Full Statement Below:<\/h3>\n<p>Our attention has been drawn to a false publication by Julie Kanz of Hello-gh.com on 22nd<\/p>\n<p>September 2018 captioned \u201cJoyce Blessing wins Brong Ahafo Artiste of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It is unfortunate that an esteemed blogger like her has not got its publication right<\/p>\n<p>and effort has been made to her to take down the story or change the caption.<\/p>\n<p>The Media &amp; communications department of J-BLACK CODE EVENTS GHANA wishes<\/p>\n<p>to state in unequivocal terms that there is no iota of truth in that publication, please discard<\/p>\n<p>that publication as false. We don\u2019t know her motive behind that.<\/p>\n<p>We are officially informing you the media that Joyce Blessing is not BAMA artiste of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Blessing won BAMA Gospel artiste of the year, BAMA album of the year and BAMA songwriter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>BAMA artiste of the year 2018 was Kooko.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/BAMA_REJOINDER-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/BAMA_REJOINDER-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/BAMA_REJOINDER-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/BAMA_REJOINDER-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/BAMA_REJOINDER-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maiden edition of the award came off\u00a0at the Tyco City Hotel Auditorium in Sunyani on Friday, September 21, 2018. It was however highly publicized that Joyce Blessing won the Artiste of the Year Award. But\u00a0J Black Code Events, organizers for the prestigious\u00a0Brong Ahafo Music Awards have\u00a0shot down false such reports. However, in a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":53780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[48594,48595],"class_list":["post-53778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bama-2018","tag-brong-ahafo-music-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778","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=53778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53781,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53778\/revisions\/53781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}